TCS 2017 Summer Show – First Details
The 2017 TCS Summer Show will be held at a new and much larger venue, Stantonbury Arts & Leisure Centre in Milton Keynes on 15 July The large main sports hall will be used allowing for more displays and traders and nice wide aisles. These premises will be far...
TCS at Winchester Show
TCS runs US tinplate at Winchester show 15th October TCS Chair Bryan Pentland will, with TCS Committee Member Rod Hannah, be running a large display of 0 gauge tin plate trains from the USA at the Winchester American and Continental '0' Gauge Exhibition on 15th...
More details of the 2016 TCS Leicester Get-Together
Paul Draycott has sent us more details of this year's Leicester show to be held on 5th November. First of all we are reminded it is the 25th show. That is incredible! Apparently to celebrate that fact there will be a token issued on entry to everyone attending to...
A summer treat in Bavaria
TCS member Karl Isele has just supplied us with some rather wonderful photographs of trains running at the Scheyern Abbey in Bavaria. Karl writes “There are always beautiful scenes on the big tinplate layout at the Scheyern monastery. You have to be there; photos...
More Memories of July
Yet more moments of this year's TCS Summer Show at Biggleswade last month are now on the site. TCS Chair Bryan Pentland has now posted further photos he took at the show which we hope you will enjoy whether you were able to join us or not. Just click here to go direct...
Luxury Travel with the TCS
You can now relax and enjoy another great miniature train journey. TCS member Fred van der Lubbe has produced another fascinating book based round photos of models in his collection. It complements his book on CIWL carriages first featured back in February but this...
Standard Bearer
More photos of one of the many great layouts at this year's TCS Summer Show are now on the site Neil Smith gave us a wonderful Tri-ang layout with Standard Track, Phase 1 overhead and Transcontinental stock (with a few neverwazzas for good measure). Now he has made...
Skaledale Property News!
Details of many desirable Commercial and Residential Premises (and more) in this much sought after location now available - well in 4mm scale anyway! For TCS member John Entwistle has put together another comprehensive listing of Hornby production, this time of the...
There are More Trains at the Bottom of his Garden!
As has been mentioned in a previous post TCS member Fred van der Lubbe clearly gets lots of pleasure from his garden. In his words “My track is used a lot for Gauge 1 and Gauge 0, running clockwork, steam and electric trains". He also videos them running and these can...Recent Posts
TCS 2026 Spring Show
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Train Collector Issue 77
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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 →