Famous Trains

Visitors to Famous Trains at present can see trains running on our big OO gauge Chinley model railway that represent the types of trains and locomotives seen there in the 1959s and 1960s. Later in May the theme will switch slightly to using models of diesels where we are currently running steam. Each theme period lasts about two months. In the summer we shall run a theme called 'holiday trains'.

There are sixteen trains currentlyon the layout, so you will see plenty of variety!

Happy New Year to all! We at Famous Trains hope you are all recovering well this morning after last night. And for any families wondering how to fill today, a reminder that we are open today from 11am till 4pm🎉

A great cause and a chance to win some great prise. Even with our friends at the Rudyard Lake Railway....

48 hours and we are smashing it! So far we are over 200 tickets sold! Every ticket you buy will directly support Prostate Cancer UK ❤️ fans and beyond your support is very much appreciated!

As part of our on-going efforts to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK we are pleased to give our followers the opportunity to buy tickets in our Charity Raffle. Generously donated prizes from traders that are attending our show this year means that the prize pot has prizes ranging from £25-£500

Tickets are;
£10 for 1 Ticket or
£20 for 3 Tickets

The Raffle will be drawn on the Sunday of the Exhibition at Crewe
Don't worry if you win and don't attend the show we'll simply post the items out to you.

To purchase tickets simply follow the link below: 100% of your ticket value will be donated to the charity.

https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/modern-image-o-gauge-raffle-in-aid-of-prostate-cancer-uk--2025

A full list of prizes can be found at the above link - we'd like to thank all of the traders for providing wonderful raffle prizes

HELJAN A/S, PR Model Railway Products - PRMRP, Buzz Models, Ellis Clark Trains, George Dent at Model Rail, Easybuild, Peter Clark Models, Durham Trains Of Stanley, Rudyard Lake Railway, Telford Steam Railway, Gary Smith, Rails of Sheffield, Northumbrian Painting Services, GM Transport Books, Footplate of Kidderminster & Tower Models

Just one of the crazy things that can be seen at Famous Trains. Union Pacific Big Boy hauling a super load!

⚠️ STOLEN GOODS ALERT ⚠️

We are saddened to hear that The Deltic Preservation Society have had their entire stock of Accurascale Class 55 Deltic 'Tulyar' Models stolen from their base.

Please share this to make these models too hot to handle - and please contact the Deltic Preservation Society if you have any information that may help them track them down!

With the 27th September 1825 marking the day that the Stockton & Darlington Railway, Famous Trains has recently been running a Railway200 theme. To help our volunteers and members celebrate the 200 years, through October we are running no particular theme but are instead letting our staff run wild and put on whatever locomotives and trains tickle their fancy on the layout, show casing all that Famous Trains has hidden away in our drawers and what our members bring in from home.

Our theme change of the year...
We have now changed theme to Railway200.

Featuring iconic locomotives and trains from across the eras. From some of the first locomotives such as Rocket, up to modern multiple units like the GWR Class 800.

We are running some locomotives you may have seen us run before but also some brand new ones such as our headliner for this theme, our all new Sound Fitted Avanti West Coast Class 390 Pendolino!

And that's the end of The Greatest Gathering. What an event, something that will not be seen again for another 50 years at least. Thank you to all who came to visit us, we hope you enjoyed Peaky Bluff and Croft Mills.
Only got a chance to pen bomb one layout today as it felt so fast and busy today.

Final day at The Greatest Gathering. What an event and we're back again to do some pen bombing. Another thank you to all again for being good sports with it Underground Eric

Another day of The Greatest Gathering done. Only 1 day to go now. It seems to go so fast.

Another bit of pen bombing done today😈. Thank you again to all for being good sports🤗