20th and 21st September 2025
The 2025 Bala Model Railway Show will be held at Ysgol Godre’r Berwyn Secondary School, Ffrydan Road, Bala, Gwynedd LL23 7RU.
Opening times: 10.00-16.00 on both Saturday and Sunday.
Refreshments and free parking will be available.
Vintage bus service to and from the Bala Lake Railway to connect with our frequent trains.
The following layouts and trade/society stands are booked for this years show:
Foyer:
- Bala Lake Railway Shop
- Maid Marian Locomotive Fund (supporting a lovely engine built in 1903)
- Collector Stash (shop based in Wrexham, sells new and secondhand models)
- Millhouses (N Gauge, steam and diesel, main lines)
- Raven Eve Designs (from Dwygyfychi, sells engraved wood and slate crafts)
Atrium:
- Penhelig (00 Gauge model of the station on the Cambrian Coast Line, BR steam era)
Cafeteria:
- Indian Hill Railway (16mm scale live steam, based on the Darjeeling Railway)
- Steve Currinn Books and Models (including 16mm live steam locomotives for sale)
Hall Central Zone:
- Cog Road (0 Scale South Wales Branch Line, pre-1923 steam)
- Phoenix Road (00 Gauge, Industrial)
- Romiley (00 Gauge, steam and diesel: moving on from the train set)
- Playing Trains (TT-3, steam and diesel)
- North West Trains (selling scenic items, tools and materials)
Hall Around The Outside:
- Amlwch (N Gauge, model of the station on Anglesey in the steam era)
- Silff Ffenestr (00-9 with an emphasis on Ffestiniog models)
- N Gauge Shows-You-How Layout (demonstrations of building construction techniques)
- Kilburn (00 Gauge, North East England steam and diesel)
- Llanuwchllyn (N Gauge, depicting the Lake Railway station back in BR Steam days)
- Gant’s Hill (1:35 scale: secret government underground railway)
- Morfa Mawr (EM, a fictitious Cambrian station in the 1970’s)
- Sawyer Models (new and second-hand trains and equipment in all the popular scales)
Gym Central Zone:
- Henmore Creamery (rural 0-16.5 scale with scratch-built industrial buildings aplenty)
- 7mm Narrow Gauge Association (the Society for modellers in 0 scale, narrow gauge)
- Rhiw Goch (0-16.5, model of the platform-less passing point on the Ffestiniog Railway)
- Boot Hill (16mm scale electric locomotive kits and other large-scale products)
- Alan James Models (second-hand model retailer, based in Rhyl)
Gym Corridor and Around the Outside:
- Japanese Garden (scenic 00 Gauge tourist railway)
- Western Signs (from Telford: replica railway signs & garden railway buildings, plus their own American 0N30 narrow gauge layout)
- Andrew McDougal Models (second-hand books and models, 0-16.5 specialist)
- Tan-y-Coed (009 scale layout inspired by the Ffestiniog Railway especially)
- Brooks 3D Models (3D Printed Model Kits, specialising in 009)
- Talyllyn Railway Society (our friends from the West)
- Gaddhill (16mm scale, electric model of a WW1 trench railway)
- Porterhouse Models (3D Printed Kits in 16mm and other scales)
- Boston & Maine (N Gauge industrial layout, set in the USA, many working features)
- Bottom of the Barrel (00 Gauge model of a brewery, built into an actual beer barrel)
- Glanrafon (00 Scale model of a steelworks, post-privatisation diesel era)
- Bachmann Collectors’ Society (an extensive display of Bachmann’s latest models)
We’ve made it easy to visit the Bala Model Show and ride the Bala Lake Railway by connecting the show venue with the station at Bala with a free vintage bus service. If you’re visiting both, we recommend parking at the school for the model show and using the bus to get to the station, or otherwise starting your day at Llanuwchllyn and travelling on the train and vintage bus to the show.
Here are some images from the previous shows to whet your appetite:
