Railwells 2025
12 - Layouts
12 - Demonstrations
18 - Traders
Parking for both Saturday and Sunday will be available in Palace Fields Charge £4 all day. To find this location just follow the Railwells Parking signs.
Railwells is an extra special show this year. The exhibition is a celebration of Railway 200, the EM Gauge 70 years, the 3mm Association 60 years, Scalefour Southwest and the 2mm Association’s Road Show. Each individual section has layouts demonstrations and displays. Tim Venton is bringing along his layout of the Radstock tramway at Wellow as it would have been in 1825/6. The 3mm Association has a layout attending called Lananta Quay with standard and Brunel’s broad gauge, so really early railways. Pendon Museum will have on show some copies of photos taken from a book published by the Great Western Railway for the 100th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Really the whole show will be for Railway 200. So please come along and enjoy the event.
Railwells 2025 including Scalefour Southwest and special EM 70, 3mm 60. and 2mm Section. There will be a layout of the Radstock Tramway 3’4’’ gauge as at 1825/6 representing Railway 200, the 200th anniversary of railways as we know them today. The whole exhibition however will show railways as they progressed through the years.
Organised by the Wells Railway Fraternity
The Town Hall,
Market Place,
Wells,
Somerset BA5 2RB
Please note for show parking follow the Railwells parking signs as you enter the centre of Wells, Somerset.
Saturday 9th August, 10.30 to 5.00
Sunday 10th August, 10.00 to 4.00
Admission Adults £10.00
Accompanied Child (14 and under) Free
Wheelchair-bound Free
Children up to 17yrs £5.00
For further and up-to-date information – Organiser Chris Challis 01308 897539
Railwells 2025 Including Scalefour Southwest and special sections for The EM gauge Society and The 2mm Association
The Scalefour, EM Gauge and 2mm society membership secretary will be in attendance over the weekend for any questions you might have.
P4 Elcot Road – Simon Bendall
P4 Horsley Lane Goods – Steve Howe
P4 Yard No. 2 – David Barrett
Og Weekend Yard – Kevin Cartwright
EM Hembourne – Paul Ash
EM Westcliff – Richard Butler
009 Devils Bridge 1904 – Andy Cundick
Updated 24.05.2025
Layouts
2025 Layout list as of 24.05.2025
P4 Elcot – Simon Bendall
This layout depicts railways 30 years ago, the most modern in the show
P4 Horsley Lane Goods – Steve Howe
A small layout set as a goods yard
P4 Radstock Tramway at Wellow – Tim Venton
Set in 1825 this coal line was built on the canal tow path
P4 Yard No. 2 – David Barrett
1930s-50s layout is based in the general London area with a LNWR warehouse and small coal yard
Og Weekend Yard – Kevin Cartwright
Showing what can be built in a weekend in O gauge
EM Hembourne – Paul Ash
Layout depicts the GWR in Hertfordshire 1920, 1930s period
EM Westcliff – Richard Butler
What West Bay might have looked like had it been developed as hoped
009 Devils Bridge 1904 – Andy Cundick
The terminus of the Vale of Rheidol Railway
009 Woody Bay – Lynton & Barnstaple Rly
3mm Foxburyn – Bob Brown
A GWR branch set in the 1950s in the Cotswolds
3mm Lananta Quay – Nick Salzman
Broad and standard gauge, situated in North Devon/Cornwall
2mm Ley Hill – Jerry Cifford
A small layout that shows what can be achieved in a small space
Layout list updated 24.05.2025
Traders
Bill Hudson Transport Books
C&L Finescale Track
Scalefour Society Stores
Dart Castings with Monty’s figures and MJT
Taff Vale Models
Branchlines
Wells Railway Fraternity Book Sales, in aid of The Railway Children Charity
Attwood Aggregates attwood.aggregates@yahoo.com phone 07740381999
Roxey Mouldings
CM3 Models Selling all the tools and bits you need
Peco
Railway Children’s Charity book sales
Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust
Aspire Gfts and Modells
Blacksmith Models
Model Stock (ABS) A new name for ABS 4mm kits
EBMA Hobby & Craft
Refreshments The Wookey Hub, Food all day
Updated 24.05.2025
Demonstrations
Modelling in EM
Andrew Ullyott
Modelling EM and Soldering
Steve Flint
How to Solder
Roger Sawyer
Track construction and working in S7
The Scale 7 group
2mm Association Roadshow
Paula Martin
Modelling in 2mm scale
Jerry Clifford
Kit and scratch-built wagons in 4mm
John Chambers
Starting in P4
Gavin Clarke
Modelling in Gauge 1
Simon Castens (from the Titfield Thunderbolt Bookshop)
Modelling Buildings, Braeside Models
Brian McCullock
Modelling the Broad Gauge
Ashley Phillips
Modelling in 3mm
The 3mm Association
Updated 24.05.2025
Please note that all details of exhibitors and traders are tentative and should be confirmed prior to the date.
‘Getting to Railwells/Scalefour Southwest by public transport
There is now a bus service to Wells from Bristol. The bus is the Mendip Xplorer service 376, marked from Bristol to Wells, Glastonbury and Street. For those travelling by train, the bus stop at Bristol Temple Meads is at the bottom of the station approach on the right. In Wells, the bus stops at ‘The former HSBC bank building at the end of Sadler Street 150 yards from the Town Hall. It is best to go to the Wells bus station or ask at the exhibition ticket office for the return journey.
An up-to-date timetable can be found on the www.firstbus.co.uk website, choosing ‘Timetables’ from the menu, ‘Bristol, Bath and the West’, and then ‘376’ for the required route and choosing ‘Find Timetables’.
3mm Foxbury – Bob Brown
3mm Lananta Quay – Nick Salzman
2mm Ley Hill – Jerry Cifford