Latest News
27th October 2024
Ready to run accurate LNWR 50ft arc roof corridor carriages
Bachmann have just announced ready to run 4mm scale carriages in LNWR livery! The Society has been involved in their development, resulting in accurate scale models.
The carriages will be available in the new year, with orders being taken from the 6th November. There are four diagrams on offer . They will be available in LNWR, LMS and Midland & Great Northern Joint liveries. The quality of the LNWR livery and lining is superb, as is the level of detail.
A pre production sample photographed on the L&NWR Society stand at a recent exhibition
Some very exciting news from Rapido Trains UK. The launch of a ready to run LNWR goods van in 00 gauge. What a superb model it is too, available in six versions, including two in LNWR livery. More details here https://rapidotrains.co.uk/lnwr-d88-covered-van/
Hopefully there will be other LNWR goods stock to follow. Then a suitable locomotive to haul them?
As of the beginning of 2024 this website includes a number of pages that are exclusively for Society members. These pages include downloadable versions of our latest Newsletter and Journal, plus access to Society publications dating back to 1973 via our FlipBook library. There is a version of our online shop with its own price structure. Members might also be interested in a number of very early films, some dating back to the late 1890’s, that we have in our archives. Copyright restrictions mean that sadly we cannot share these publicly but do allow sharing to the membership.
From time to time the Society are gifted items to sell to raise funds, the members pages will be used to offer these items to the membership only in the first instance.
Society members need to log in to access these pages, please use the link at the foot of every page of this website
On Saturday the 6th July, the only remaining working LNWR locomotive Coal Tank number 1054 was on display at the Crewe Heritage Centre. The occasion was the official handing over ceremony of the locomotive from the National Trust to the Bahamas Locomotive Society
Upcoming Society events
The Society run a variety of events throughout the year, please check the calender on this page for details.
Our Study Centre in Kenilworth, Warwickshire is open every week, usually on Wednesdays and one Saturday of the month. Scroll down to see the calendar lower down this page for exact dates.
Modeller Day
Our Modeller Day has been held at our Study Centre for a number of years, usually in July. For 2025 we are planning something different, a new date in the Spring rather than Summer and a new venue.
The date is Saturday 22nd March 2025 and the venue is the recently extended clubrooms of the Leamington & Warwick Model Railway Society, which is located close to Junction 12 of the M40. We hope that by moving the event away from a holiday period, more people will be able to attend. The event is open to all.
Full details of the event will be published nearer to the event, but we can say that the LWMRS P4 layout, Clarendon & Scrubbs Lane will be in operation during the day as one of the team’s regular running days.
The long term plan is to see if we can hold this event at venues around the country in the coming years.
The Society Exhibition Stand
We attend model railway and model engineering exhibitions several times a year.
Scalefour Crewe 8th & 9th June The second Scalefour Society exhibition in Crewe, this year featuring the Clarendon & Scrubbs Lane P4 layout which is LNWR based.
Guildex 2024 Stafford Exhibition Centre. September 7th & 8th See the Gauge 0 Guild Website
Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition 17th to 20th October Warwickshire Exhibition Centre www.midlandsmodelengineering.co.uk
The Great British Model Railway Show 26th & 27th October British Motor Museum Gaydon, Warwickshire https://gbmrs.com/
The National Festival of Model Railways at the NEC Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th of November https://www.rmweb.co.uk/shows/nfrm-2024/
London & North Western Railway Society Calendar
