Missenden Abbey Railway Modellers

06/10/2026

Our Autumn weekend is fast approaching with most courses full and all bedrooms sold.
The next weekend course is Spring 2027 (5-7 March) which is proving to be very popular. We welcome two new tutors for 2027 with Lee Marsh joining Kevin Wilson to tutor an expanded 7mm kit building course (with only a few slots left). Warley and GOG stalwart Nigel Smith is running a new Scenery course which has proved very popular and is currently full.
We still have good availability for Signals with Karl Crowther; Weathering (with Airbrushing) with Chris Hopper; DCC with Mick Moignard and Structures with Jerry Clifford.
Our new venue at Moor Hall CIM at Cookham has more bedroom accommodation than Missenden Abbey and for a limited period we have provisionally reserved all the accommodation for the Spring weekend. We have already sold 75% of the rooms. The new venue provides excellent catering and bar services and we have had very positive feedback from those who attended our Spring 2026 weekend and our Summer 2026 week-long retreat.
If you have any questions do use our contact form:
https://www.missendenrailwaymodellers.org.uk/index.php/contact-us/

13/04/2026

https://yeovilmrg.org/new-home-sought-for-semley-martin-finneys-masterpiece/

Following the sad loss of Martin Finney in January, his seminal layout of Semley is in need of a new and loving home. Semley for Shaftesbury, as it should properly be called, was located on the Lon…

30/03/2026

Summer Bookings are open.

27/03/2026

Following a very successful and well-attended Spring Weekend our Summer Retreat booking will open very soon.
Dates are Sunday 26 July to Saturday 1 August. Residential and Non-residential places will be available and we may be able to offer a number of part-week places.
Our Summer Retreat for 2026 will be held at our new venue at the Chartered Institute of Marketing in the picturesque riverside Berkshire village of Cookham.
The Summer Retreat is slightly different in format from our weekends and is aimed at modellers who have projects that they wish to pursue. The week is not run as a tutored course, but we have a few of our tutors on hand to offer advice and assistance with your project.

15/03/2026

Well...when Missenden Abbey closed our residential modelling courses faced an uncertain future...12 months on and after much hard work we have just had our first weekend at the Chartered Institute of Marketing at Cookham.....it seemed like a success although we await feedback from the 66 railway modellers who attended....we also had our final full weekend Backscene and scenery course tutored by Paul Bambrick although he and his expertise will remain involved.... our thanks to everyone who attended and all of our excellent tutors.

23/12/2025

A suitably seasonal modelling tip from Pelle Soeborg for anybody working with cork (or corks).....along with best wishes to all from the Missenden team for Christmas and the year ahead.

13/12/2025

What a good day spent at day 1 of the Manchester Model Reailway Exhibition. It was nice to catch up with so many Missenden tutors and regular course members....my hastily assembled album is below but the content may be subject to the layouts I found and could also get close to....so apologies for any omissions..