Model car museum relocates to Welshpool & Llanfair

THE Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway will have an added attraction when the Cloverlands Model Car Museum moves from Montgomery.

The Cloverlands Model

Car Collection – which has more than 5000 model cars

– is leaving the Montgomery Institute in Arthur Street, where it has been based since 2016, and is moving to a new home at the line’s Llanfair Caereinion terminus. The aim is for it to reopen there in time for Easter, opening on Saturdays until October and on special days.

Legacy

The original Cloverlands collection was built up over 60 years by motoring enthusiast Gillian Rogers, who passed away on December 27. She who was a motoring writer and model car maker, and drove a Singer Le Mans for 40 years to racing events in Europe, as well as attending meetings at Brooklands and Goodwood.

The museum now contains models from 14 collections, including one from Canada.