Model railway exhibition returns to Edinburgh after many years
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Back-to-back announcements in early 2024 about the closure of Hattons, a well-known Merseyside model shop, and that the Warley Model Railway Club (MRC) would no longer be arranging an annual exhibition at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre (NEC), led some newspapers to paint a downbeat picture of railway modelling as a hobby. In 2023, Rainbow Railways, arranged a new show in Linlithgow focussing on N gauge, while the Pentland Model Railway Group (MRG) arranged the inaugural Lothians Model...

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