We organise a two day exhibition in January every year at St Anselm's School, Old Dover Road, Canterbury.
Over the weekend our visitors are able to enjoy a range of high quality railway model layouts in a variety of scales and prototypes. There is also a good selection of trade and other stands offering our visitors the opportunity to see and buy a wide selection of model railway related products, many of which are not available in local model shops.
Go to our Exhibition Archive page for a virtual tour of the layouts at our 2026 Exhibition as well as at previous Exhibitions and to see what you missed if you did not visit.
Our 2027 Exhibition will be on the 23rd and 24th January 2027. Layouts booked to attend include the following:-
LAYOUTS
Burdock - N gauge BR Western Region
Tellindalloch in Autumn - OO BR NE Scotland
Bowaters Paper Mill - O:16.5 industrial
Leysdown - P4 Southern 1930's
Hexworthy - OO9 narrow gauge preserved
Richborough Port - N gauge WW1 South Eastern
Addleford Green - OO Southern branch
Gweithdy Dyffryn - O/14 narrow gauge Welsh slate
Rye Sands - OO SER/SECR freight branch
Folly Lane - OO 1980s Southern Region
Roman Road - OO BR Southern sidings 1960's
Hursley Quay - O scale light railway
Manston Airport - OO BR Southern 1950's
Elham Valley Limeworks - OO9/OO late SR
The Box Factory - OO factory sidings
The City of Canterbury MRS has been in existence in its present form since 1988. In that year some members of the original Society that formerly met in the old Canterbury West station building until the roof fell in, decided to reform the Society.
Our Society and Members layouts are attending the following Exhibitions :-
Fairfield Priory will be at the Spa Valley Railway over the weekend of the 19th and 20th September 2026
Dydley Junction will be at the Folkestone Model Railway Exhibition over the weekend of 26th and 27th September 2026
Coalhouse will be at the Chelmsford and District Model Railway Exhibition on Saturday 17th October 2026.
Haverhill South is attending the Uckfield Model Railway Club show on the 17th and 18th October 2026
Manston will be at the City of Canterbury MRS Exhibition on the 23rd and 24th January 2027