Saturday 20th June 9.30am to 5.00pm

Sunday 21st June. 9.30am to 4.30pm

Buxton Pavilion Gardens, St John’s Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6BE

Admission

  • Under 11’s guide book cover competition entrants: child free + 1 Adult £7.50 (half price)
  • Serving military and service personnel or any over 7’s youth group or cadets member in uniform: free entry.
  • Non uniform wearing Forces personnel with uniform photo id: £11.00
  • Adults after 3pm daily: £7.50 (Half price)
  • 5-13’s: £3.00
  • 13-18’s: £8.00
  • Over 65’s: £13.00
  • Adult: £15.00 ( *includes single entry to raffle)
  • Car pool/ 4 Adults and single guidebook on one card payment: £54.00
  • Family 2 adults & 3 children: £34.00
  • Fathers day special: to be announced soon!
  • Guidebook: £2.50

Adult ticket (full price only) raffle prize: Limited edition Hornby set R2372m Royal Duchy.

Below are provisional lists, more content will be added soon!

CONTENT

SPECIAL GUESTS

Pete Waterman and the making tracks team will be demonstrating the scenic modelling techniques used on their record breaking layouts.

Peco will be present with their publicity stand.

Working layouts

(subject to availability)

  • Farringdon Street. – 7mm Broad Gauge
  • Thelwall. – N Gauge
  • Fort Whiting – 009
  • Pencadder . – OO
  • Westmoor Junction. – OO
  • Glenties. – Ho
  • Minories. – OO
  • Megantic – 0N2
  • Shobnal whatf – 00. (New layout)
  • Evercreech Junction – N Gauge. (New layout)
  • Chipping Norton – 2mm Finescale
  • Karlisle. – N Gauge. (New layout)
  • Nowhere In Particular – N Gauge
  • Middleton Top – 00
  • Bridge Road – 00
  • Purgatory Peak – ON30
  • Tbc – S Scale
  • Dent – 00
  • Rockport – 00
  • Ian Morrison – N6
  • Leigh Bridge – O0
  • Effingham Street – 00
  • leicester Junction . – 00
  • german tbc – 009
  • Linden Grove – 00
  • ? – 2mm Finescale
  • Japanese? – N Scale
  • New Street Goods . – 00
  • Triang – O Gauge. (New layout)
  • Cherry Willingham 3mm/TT
  • Trellisic -O Gauge tbc
  • Woodbury yard – OO tbc
  • Thomas and Freinds – tbc
  • Tbc?
  • Tbc?
  • Tbc?

Clubs and Societies

  • 2mm Scale Association
  • 3mm Society
  • 009 Society
  • DEMU
  • Double O Gauge Association
  • The Gauge O Guild
  • Wenslydale Railway Association

Demonstrators

  • Pete Waterman & making tracks team
  • Brian Davis – Wagon loads
  • David White – Slaters products.
  • Richard Dallimore – 3d print road vehicles
  • David Wright – Diorama & modelling in DAS clay.

Tradestands

  • Baz’ Model Railways
  • Booklaw
  • Crafty Models
  • Leigh Models
  • LMS Patriot group
  • Malc’s Models
  • Monica’s Attic
  • Mount Tabor Models
  • MMR
  • Nick Tozer 2nd hand Books
  • Peco
  • Railstuff
  • SMTF
  • Three Peaks Models
  • Topps Trains
  • West Hill Wagon works
  • Zoe Hunter Historical Maps
  • Tbc?
  • Tbc?
  • Tbc?

Conditions of Entry

Adult unaccompanied 13-18 year olds are allowed at the discretion of the door staff and no large groups will be permitted.

As many of the exhibits are both delicate and valuable we request that children remain under close supervision at all times.

All pets carried or otherwise are excluded, except registered therapy and guide dogs which must be kept on the shortest lead possible at all times.

Un-enclosed mobility scooters are permitted provided they are used with care and respect for others. Please note that to maximise our use of the venue a few exhibits (5%) will be located on a stage accessed by steps only.

Entry is valid for the day of purchase only and is non transferable. All +13’s and adults will be required to wear a wristband supplied upon entry and persons wishing to leave the show and return within the same day must not remove it. Persons with removed or broken wristbands will be refused re-entry to the show.

Programme/guidebook cover competition entrants must have submitted a bona fide entry and abide by the rules of the competition (see bottom of page for details).

Visitors are not allowed to take food or beverages into the exhibition areas.

Travel

Buxton is well served by public transport from the surrounding towns or cities. On-site pay and display parking may be accessed from Burlington Rd (£5.40-all day) or at the nearby railway station and Palace Hotel. Buxton Town centre is a short walk away containing several car parks. Free street side parking requiring a short walk to the venue is available on Park Road and other surrounding streets. Disabled parking at the venue is free.

Fascilities

Accomodation

We recommend booking in advance due to Buxton’s popularity as a tourist destination. However late bookings can sometimes be sourced via the Premiere Inn and Palace Hotel or you may still find guest house or pub accomodation around the town? For those willing to travel half an hour you may find cheaper accommodation in Leek or Macclesfield.

Raffle rules

  • All raffles operated by Railex Buxton are for UK mainland residents 18yrs and older only and open during the public hours of the show only and close at 4pm Sunday.
  • Entry to the Adult raffle is to full price paying attendees only (one entry per person).
  • All raffle tickets must be paid for at purchase and have the entrants telephone number written on them. Tickets must be placed into the box on the public entrance pay desk.
  • The winners will be drawn at 4.00 pm Sunday and the informed by telephone asap thereafter. Prizes will be delivered or posted out within 7 days afterwards. Prize winners names and town location only will be stated on the Railex Buxton website, social media and any subsequent publicity materials

Programme cover competition rules

  1. All entrants must be under 11 yrs old and a resident of Buxton, High Peak or the Peak District.
  2. Each entrant can only enter 1 item.
  3. Entries must be in the portrait format ideally A5 or A4 but no larger and use colour.
  4. Entries must be the entrants own work by hand as a line drawing, crayon, chalk or painting. Stencilled, copied, printed or photographic elements are not allowed.
  5. The subject for this year is ‘the railways around buxton’ and entries must to the greater extent be focussed upon this subject.
  6. Each picture must show the child’s name, age and home town in the bottom right hand corner. Do not put any other contact details on the picture.
  7. On the reverse face you must write the contact telephone number of the responsible adult who will attend the show with the entrant child.
  8. You must take a photograph of both sides of your picture (on your phone etc) which must accompany the attending adult and child if you come to the show (as your proof of right to enter).
  9. Each entry will entitle the entrant child to free admission and one accompanying adult to half price admission on either the Saturday or Sunday of the 2026 show.
  10. All entries will be displayed inside the show over the weekend.
  11. Entry into the competition is done with the acceptance of these rules and that the winning entry will be freely used by the show as the 2026 programme cover and any subsequent publicity materials Railex Buxton require.
  12. We regret we cannot return entries after the show. The winner will be presented with thier original artwork alongside the programme cover framed.
  13. Entries must be submitted before the end of May 2026. Entries should be placed inside a sealed envelope unfolded and marked as ‘Railex Buxton competition entry’. Entries may be handed in at Buxton Rail Works shop at: 9 Bridge Street, Buxton, SK17 6BS or posted through their letterbox (see rail works website for opening hours).