Meccano Show 2025
Saturday 18 October 2025
10:30am – 4:30pm
Falconwood Community Centre
31–39 Falconwood Parade
Falconwood
London
DA16 2PG
| Adults |
£5.00 |
| Accompanied children |
Free |
| Unaccompanied children |
£5.00 |
Cash only. Children aged up to 16 may enter free when accompanied by a paying adult.
London’s most popular Meccano Show returns to Falconwood for its 46th year!
At our Meccano Show you’ll see working models of cars, cranes, trains, funfair rides and more, all built from Meccano, the famous construction toy invented by Frank Hornby in 1901.
This year, as part of the Railway 200 campaign, we’re celebrating 200 years of train travel since 1825 with extra special railway models and guest model railway exhibits including ‘Japan in Bloom’, an N gauge layout based on Yamanshi Prefecture.
If you’d like to try building a Meccano model our Make It With Meccano Workshop will supply you with parts and simple instructions, or you can design and build your own model using our supplied parts and enter it into our Meccano Creative Challenge for the chance to win a prize (entries must be submitted by 3:00pm).
We’ll also have non-Meccano guest exhibits and activities including:
- The Electronics Club Circuits Workshop — Build working circuits such as traffic lights using real electronic components and microchips. Parts, simple instructions and guidance will be provided.
- A Load of Balls — A selection of mechanical ball contraptions that are amusing to watch but otherwise useless, plus more useful hands-on toys along similar lines that will amuse youngsters and give parents at least ten minutes rest!
Our dealers will have Meccano parts and sets for sale, and you can win prizes in our raffle.
Refreshments and accessible facilities for wheelchair users will be available.
It’s a great day out for all the family, and FREE for accompanied kids!
Calling all makers!
Are you a model maker, a member of a model engineering club, or an operator of STEAM workshops for children? We’re looking for people with interests related to Meccano (e.g. Hornby products, model railways, live steam, die-cast models, 3D printing, robotics, electronics etc.) who are available to exhibit/run workshops at our Meccano Show.
There will be no charge for exhibiting and we can provide tables, chairs and power, so if you are interested please get in touch as soon as possible.