Returning in 2026, the Yorkshire Garden Railway Show is back on Yorkshire soil, as we return to the Elsecar Heritage Centre!
Saturday 10th October 2026
10:00 - 16:00
Elsecar Heritage Centre, Barnsley, S74 8HJ
Adults: £8.50 Pre-book | £10 Door Entry
Child* (Up to 16 Years): Free
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Visiting
The show this year is returning to Yorkshire and the Elsecar Heritage Centre. Venue has held many of our past shows and following a recent refurbishment of the site, we’re pleased to be returning once again to hold our annual Yorkshire Garden Railway Show.
The venues recent refurbishment also means we have more space for layouts and traders available, providing even variety across our hobby.
Door will open from 10:00 until 16:00, with advanced ticket holders able to get fast track entry to the show.
Toilet facilities, including accessible toilets will be available in multiple locations across the Elsecar Heritage site. Access to and from these is likely to require you to leave the Ironworks building where our show is held, but all ticket holders can leave and re-enter the show throughout the day as many times as they wish.
While dogs are welcome on the Elsecar site, they are not allowed in the event spaces including ours.
Assistance dogs are welcome in all areas of the buildings, including our show.
Attending by car
Two free car parks are available either side of the Elsecar Heritgate Centre site.
Distillery Car Park – Accessed from Wath Road
Wentworth Car Park -Access from Wentworth Road. This car park contains blue badge parking and EV Charging provided by Mer
Elsecar Heritage Centre is located just 7 minutes from Junction 36 of the M1.
Elsecar, Barnsley, S74 8HJ
Attending by Train
The Elsecar Railway Station is located a 5 to 10 minutes walk away. The station operated by Northern.
- From Sheffield (Southbound): Two trains per hour throughout the day
- From Leeds (Northbound): One train per hour via Barnsley and Castleford
- From Huddersfield (Northbound): One train per hour via Barnsley along the Penistone Line
Further Travel Information
More information about attending can be found on the Elsecar Heritage Centre website.
Features
There’s a number of special features at this years show, with chances for manufacturers to showcase there products in use. Along with a never before seen layout on show, plus a huge range of things to see and do around Elsecar Heritage Centre itself!
Meet the ManufactureR
We’re extremely lucky in our hobby that many of the manufacturers and suppliers are also directly involved in the hobby. Many started out with wanting something for themselves and now offer it to others, filling a gap in the market.
At this year’s show, we want to allow our visitors the chance to meet some of these manufacturers, ask questions and see their products in use on our layouts throughout the day. The schedule shows who’s taking part, at what time and on which layout.
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PS Models 10:30
Fare to Middlin' Layout
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Accucraft Trains UK 11:30
Fare to Middlin' Layout
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Woodleigh Engineering 12:00
Dixon Green & Sead-Y-Parc Layout
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Boot Lane Works 12:30
Fare to Middlin' Layout
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SLR Models 13:00
Dixon Green & Sead-Y-Parc Layout
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Roundhouse Engineering & Resurgam Rolling Stock 13:30
Fare to Middlin' Layout
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Bole Laser Craft 14:30
Fare to Middlin' Layout
Fare to Middlin' - First Public Outing
This year many Yorkshire Members will be running on a brand new layout, as the Fare to Middlin’ layout makes its first public appearance! This layout has been built over the course of the year to modern standards, with a great deal of work going into it ahead of this year’s show.
The build progress of the layout has been documented here on our website, but as a visitor to our show you’ll get to see the end result of all that hard work. A huge thank you to all the Yorkshire members involved in bringing this layout together.
Local Attractions
Once again our show will be held at a venue with significant historical value. The Elsecar Heritage Centre site is packed with interesting buildings, each with their own story to tell. The Ironworks building you’ll be inside for our show, was once a Victorian era rolling mill. You can also find a former blacksmiths, carpenters workshop, and sawmill all onsite. The visitor centre was once the managers office which was needed to keep all the different activities onsite in order!
Local Shopping & Cafes
The modern day Elsecar Heritage Centre might not offer ironworking or carpentry services any more, but it’s still the home to many small industries and businesses.
Check out the Elsecar Heritage website for morning information.
Layouts
Confirmed layouts for this years show are…
Layouts attending this years show will be revealed soon.
- Theme: A publicly interactive layout with multiple working industrial features and complex trackwork.
- Recent YGRS Attendance: 2024, 2025, 2026
Is it one, or two railways? Well it does have two names but then so does Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, another famous duo from Yorkshire. So what’s the story then with this layout duo? Well, these are two Yorkshire Group layouts that both started out as their own separate layouts, but as time has […]
The Llantaliog Valley Railway is built to 16mm Scale on 32mm Track. It runs a combination of Live Steam Gas Powered locomotives and battery driven Diesel outline locomotives; some are radio-controlled others free running. The layout is a single-track oval, with a loop and three-track fiddle yard and two short sidings. It is based upon […]
- Theme: Demonstrating the many different aspects of 16mm modelling, in a small space.
- Min Radius: 230mm
- Recent YGRS Attendance: 2024, 2025, 2026
A modelling demonstration where we will be making and displaying items for garden railways. Including Locos and Rolling Stock. Please stop for a chat and we will try to answer your questions about getting started in 16mm narrow gauge in the garden.
- Est: 2006
- Theme: rhydypenderyn represents a small welsh station set in the early twentieth century.
- Recent YGRS Attendance: 2024, 2025, 2026
Rhydypenderyn is a fully scenic layout and represents a small Welsh station set in the early twentieth century. It is not based on any particular location but is characteristic of many rural stations of the period. The 32mm trackwork is hand built using brass rail pinned to wooden sleepers. All pointwork is operated by rod […]
Please Note, some traders or exhibitors may be missing while we await information from them. These will be added as ASAP.
Would you like to attend with your layout? Contact our team below.
Traders & Exhibitors
Show special information from some of our traders
As always, we have a great selection of traders & exhibitors at this years show. Here’s our full list!
Please Note, some traders or exhibitors may be missing while we await information from them. These will be added as ASAP.
Would you like to attend our show as a trader? Contact our team below.
2026 Show
For the 2026 show, we returned to the Elsecar Heritage Centre, where the Yorkshire Garden Railway Show first started.
We had a great selection of layouts attend this year. Not only Yorkshire based ones, but also much further afield too. Each showing off the different approaches you can make in our hobby.
Fare to Middlin’, the latest layout built by Yorkshire Members, had it’s first public appearance at this years show. Placed in the Loco Shed Hall, the layout provided a number of manufacturers the chance to showcase their models in use on the layout.
We also had a huge amount of traders at this years show, each showcasing their products or services, covering pretty much everything you need! There’s nothing like getting hands on or up close to things before deciding what you need. Especially when many traders are also garden railway owners themselves, so can give you real advice on how they have used or developed their own products.
Yorkshire Group members will now have a well earned rest before we start to make plans for the 2027 show!
Local Press Coverage
Not only did a number of visitors enjoy our show, we also had editors from the Yorkshire Post attend and take great interest in our show. They’ve taken some fantastic photos of this years event, capturing not only modelling on display on the layouts, but also the range of people who come together to put on a show like this.
We’re very keen in our group to get young members involved, they will no doubt be the future of our hobby, running the show for many years to come. The Yorkshire Post have captured a number of moments from the show that showcase this.
It’s also great to see the Garden Railway hobby being covered, especially live steam, as garden railways here in the UK can often go under the radar of many. What secrets we hide in our back gardens are often seldom seen out in the public, even less so in mainstream media.
So check out the video they have produced, along with an article packed with fantastic photos from the 2026 show!
Photos
Here’s a great selection of photos from this years event, showing locos large and small.
Thank you to a number of Yorkshire Members for your photos.
Videos
There was also a number of visitors to the show recording their experience of the show, or just some of the layout action so that those unable to attend can enjoy it from afar. Thank you to those who do this as not everyone can attend but your videos mean they don’t have to miss out.
As videos are published, we’ll add them to this page. Please feel free to Contact Us if you want to see your video listed here.
Youtube Channel – Chris Cooper
Youtube Channel – B2000 ro Toys Channel
Youtube Channel – lovesteamok
Youtube Channel – Model Railways and Me
Youtube Channel – @LakeLocos
Traders
We were very well supported by a large number of traders and associations at this years show. Check them all out below.
Would you like to attend with your layout? Contact our team below.
