| Date |
Event |
Organisers |
Link |
| January |
|
|
|
| 12th Jan |
Members’ Slide Show – Continental/Overseas
Subjects |
IRRS (Irish Railway Record Society) |
 |
| 15th Jan |
Toys of Yesterday, Sandyford
Community Centre |
|
|
| 26th Jan |
Annual General Meeting of the Irish Railway
Record Society |
IRRS |
 |
| February |
|
|
|
| 4th Feb |
Chester Swapmeet |
North Staffs Railmania |
|
| 5th Feb |
Dublin Toy & Train Fair, Clontarf Castle |
Brian Kelly, Terry McNally |
 |
| 9th Feb |
“The Horseleap Branch” – a paper given by John
O’Meara |
IRRS |
 |
| 18th/19th Feb |
Festival of British Railway Modelling |
British Railway Modelling |
 |
| 23rd Feb |
T.B.A. |
IRRS |
 |
| 24th-26th Feb |
Model Rail Scotland 2006 – Scottish Exhibition
Centre, Glasgow |
AMRSS |
 |
| March |
|
|
|
| 9th Mar |
Annual Film Show (Tony Price) |
IRRS |
 |
| April |
|
|
|
| 1st Apr |
Chester Swapmeet |
North Staffs Railmania |
|
| 1st/2nd Apr |
London Festival of Railway Modelling |
British Railway Modelling |
 |
| 4th-9th Apr |
Intermodellbau 2006, Dortmund, Germany |
Messe Westfalenhallen Dortmund |
 |
| 15th-17th Apr |
York Model Railway Show |
|
 |
| 22nd/23rd Apr |
Model Railway Exhibition - Bangor Leisure Centre |
North Down Model Railway Society |
|
| May |
|
|
|
| 21st May |
Dublin Toy & Train Fair, Clontarf Castle Hotel |
Brian Kelly, Terry McNally |
 |
| 27th May |
Visit to the Westport Line. Special
train from Westport to Athlone courtesy of Iarnrod Eireann |
IRRS |
 |
| June |
|
|
|
| 2nd/3rd Jun |
Model Railway Exhibition, Bangor, Co. Down |
First Bangor MRC |
 |
| 3rd Jun |
Chester Swapmeet |
North Staffs Railmania |
|
| August |
|
|
|
| 17th Aug |
European Tour (Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy,
Germany) |
IRRS |
 |
| September |
|
|
|
| 9th Sep |
Annual Members' Visit to Inchicore
Railway Works. |
IRRS |
 |
| 14th Sep |
Members' Slide Show (Irish & UK
subjects). |
IRRS |
 |
| 16th Sep |
Model Railway Exhibition -
Enniskillen (10am - 5pm) |
Erne Model Railway Club |
|
| 17th Sep |
Dublin Toy & Train Fair, Clontarf Castle Hotel |
Brian Kelly, Terry McNally |
 |
| 28th Sep |
Members Slide Show |
IRRS |
 |
| October |
|
|
|
| 12th Oct |
‘Regeneration of Irish Rail’
Paper given by Oliver Doyle, Irish Rail |
IRRS |
 |
| 14th Oct |
‘The Supertrain’. Railtour from
Dublin to Cork, Cobh, Limerick and Nenagh. |
ITG Railtours Ltd. |
 |
| 14th Oct |
Swapmeet, Northgate Arena, Chester |
North Staffs Railmania |
|
| 15th Oct |
Swapmeet, Sandyford Community Centre |
Toys of Yesterday |
|
| 22nd Oct |
Annual Exhibition Day (1), Old
Rathaspeck Church, near Johnstown Castle Estate, Co. Wexford |
Wexford Model Railway Club |
|
| 22nd Oct |
Toy Collectors Fair, NEC, Birmingham |
D J Fairs Ltd. |
 |
| 26th Oct |
‘Out & About’ Slide show by Denis
Moore |
IRRS |
 |
| 28th, 29th, 30th Oct |
Model Railway Exhibition, St.
Anthony's Church Halls, Clontarf, Dublin 3 |
MRSI |
|
| 27th, 28th, 29th Oct |
Eurospoor International Model Railway Exhibition,
Utrecht, Netherlands |
Eurospoor |
 |
| November |
|
|
|
| 5th Nov |
Annual Exhibition Day (2), Old
Rathaspeck Church, near Johnstown Castle Estate, Co. Wexford |
Wexford Model Railway Club |
|
| 5th Nov |
Swapmeet, Sandyford Community Centre |
Toys of Yesterday |
|
| 9th Nov |
‘Ballynahattin Bridge’ Presentation
by Fand Cooney, Irish Rail |
IRRS |
 |
| 11th Nov |
Toy & Train Sale at the Templeton
Hotel, Templepatrick, Co. Antrim |
Chris Dyer |
|
| 18th Nov |
Model Railway Day at Cultra Transport
Museum |
Friends of Cultra |
 |
| 19th Nov |
Dublin Toy & Train Fair, Clontarf Castle Hotel |
Brian Kelly, Terry McNally |
 |
| 27th Nov |
Annual Dinner |
IRRS |
 |
| December |
|
|
|
| 2nd Dec |
Swapmeet, Northgate Arena, Chester |
North Staffs Railmania |
|
| 2nd/3rd Dec |
Warley National Model Railway Exhibition |
Warley MRC |
 |
| 10th Dec |
Swapmeet, Sandyford Community Centre |
Toys of Yesterday |
|
| 10th Dec |
Toy Collectors Fair, NEC, Birmingham |
D J Fairs Ltd. |
 |
| 14th Dec |
‘West of the Divide’ Slide show by
Brian Solomon |
IRRS |
 |
|
Please Note: The
events listed here are subject to change at any time by their
respective organisers who may or may not notify us. Therefore this
list can not in any way be regarded as definitive. |