Spring was Showing in Leicester
The TCS Spring Show & AGM was held last Saturday (18th March) in Leicester A new venue for the AGM, but familiar to many in the TCS, it was a good day out, plenty of clockwork indoors even if not that Spring-like outside! Some great layouts and displays and plenty...
The Second Oldest Model Railway Club?
Most model railway collectors are familiar with the fact that The Model Railway Club, in London, is regarded as Britain’s oldest, but which is the second oldest? The only evidence seems to be in early model railway magazines, in which reports of club activities are...
March Photo of the Month
Our Photo of the Month for March is Model-Land WCML from Les Martin Les tells us about his layout and this photo "It depicts a typical scene on the WCML in the 1960s. The layout is purely Tri-ang (with the addition of Britain's trees) - their range of models is...
Trains at the Bottom of his Garden – Updated
TCS member Fred van der Lubbe has been busy adding more videos of trains in his garden in recent months including the B-L Prince Charles shown here. He has a YouTube channel SNCF231E to show then all. But we also have a page on this website - There are Trains at the...
Putting life back in old toy trains
At the Train Collectors Association meeting in York Pennsylvania last year towards the end of the show as traders and collectors are keen to clear their tables and take the minimum back home, I found a shoe box with three very dilapidated and rusty 1930’s Lionel...
NEW! Exley coach photos in Archive
Six photos have been added to the
February Photo of the Month
Our Photo of the Month for February is Bing OO in the Summer Sun from Paul Williams Paul tells us about this photo "The loco is a Bing Table Railway electric LMS Tank 513, manufactured sometime between 1924 and 1930. So, between 87 and 93 years old and still running...
People who live in glass house SHOULD play with trains!
Our friends of the "Spielisenbahn" seem to have started the new year well! Here are some photos of a get-together held over the three days Epiphany weekend – it warrants a public holiday in Southern Germany - in a commercial greenhouse belonging to one of the members...
Photo Competition & a Happy New Year! UPDATED
The results of our Photo Competition now in. We had a very good entry which made choosing the winners very difficult. Thank you everybody who took part. However the TCS committee never shirk a hard task (!) and so the decisions have been made. The overall winner of...Recent Posts
TCS 2026 Spring Show
Train Collectors Society, Spring Show Sat March 14th 2026, Trinity Church Hall, Leicester Train Time again on a very sunny... Read more →
TCS spring show in Leicester will take place on 14th of March as usual
Link to Eventdetails :TCS March Spring Show A recent announcement by another club stated that their AGM and train show... Read more →
Train Collector Issue 77
Now available in the Train Collector E-Library in the members section Welcome to TC 77. No theme to this issue,... Read more →
Leicester 2025 TCS autumn show
Bob Leggetts report on the TCS Autumn show in Leicester: Many of the exhibitors and Traders arrived Friday pm from... Read more →