News and events from 2025.
We are delighted to announce that tickets for our Perth Model Railway Exhibition 2025 are now available! We’ve once again teamed up with Perth Box Office to allow advance ticket purchase online. You can do so by clicking the button, after which you’ll be shown a calender that you can use to select which date you would like to come to the show on (if you want to come on both days, select one, and on the next page select the “Weekend Ticket” option). You’ll then be …
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Wester Pickston has been basking in the sunshine over much of March and April, giving the members of the Scottish Model Engineering Trust the opportunity to get the site ready for our first open day of 2025 - Sunday 20th April!
The team have been hard at work:
Preparing locos, old and new Building new guard trucks Replacing split sleepers Stripping old paint and replacing it Preparing additional signals Clearing storm-damaged trees Clearing leaves (there are plenty of them!) And much more! …
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We are pleased to announce that our annual exhibition will, as usual, be held over the last weekend of June, that is 28th & 29th June at the Dewars Centre in Perth.
The venue has undergone some major changes since last year’s event resulting in one of the halls being now unavailable to us. However, we have acquired some additional space upstairs at the venue instead and are looking forward to presenting our exhibition consisting of 30 quality model railway layouts, 21 well known trade …
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Each year, the model railway scene in Scotland starts with a bang at Model Rail Scotland. The largest model rail exhibition in Scotland (with our own, at the end of June, being the next largest), Model Rail Scotland attracts thousands of enthusiasts to the SEC in Glasgow. This year, our model railway group (Perth Model Railway Group - PMRG) were in attendance with Calla Fountain Crossing layout. SMET also had a stand advertising our larger-scale ride on railway. Both were a huge success at the …
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