Below are the award winners from the 2017 Model of the Year competition. Congratulations to the winning and highly commended entries, and our thanks to everyone who took part by entering, to those who took time to look at the many excellent models on display, and to the MOTY stewarding and judging team. A fuller set of photographs will appear in “16mm Today”.
| Category | Award | Name | Model |
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| Allcomers Locomotive Trophy | Winner | Steve Bell | Festiniog Railway Locomotive “Little Giant” |
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| Jack Wheldon Memorial Trophy | Winner | Jason Morgan | NWNGR Single Fairlie Moel Tryfan |
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| Jack Wheldon Memorial Trophy | Highly Commended | Vince Sherwood | Coal fired Mamod |
| Butterley Trophy | Winner | Dave Watkins | WW1 Crewe tractor |
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| Butterley Trophy | Highly Commended | Mark Cox | An early 20th Century American Speeder |
| Andrew Neale Challenge Trophy | Winner | Daniel Newton | Clayton Battery loco No 5843 |
| Andrew Neale Challenge Trophy | Highly Commended | John Mileson | Double ended Fairlie |
| Lineside Trophy | Winner | Patrick Cross | Highley Signal Box |
| Passenger Stock Shield | Winner | David Thompson | Welsh Highland Railway Buffet Car c. 1927-29 |
| Passenger Stock Shield | Highly Commended | Douglas Roberts | Great Western Narrow Gauge Coaches – drawing upon Welshpool Pickering & Vale of Rheidol GWR coaches |
| Rolling Stock Trophy | Winner | Mike Pinder | Wooden oval colliery tubs |
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| Rolling Stock Trophy | Highly Commended | Jeremy Viewing | Wellingborough & Finedon Ironstone Railway ore wagons |
| Gordon Diplock Trophy | Winner | Ken Davidge | Freelance Permanent Way van/wagon + crane in very poor condition |
| Gordon Diplock Trophy | Highly Commended | Mark Cox | An early 20th Century American Speeder |
| Peter Jones Trophy | Winner | Vince Sherwood | Coal fired Mamod |
| Peter Jones Trophy | Highly Commended | Douglas Roberts | Great Western Narrow Gauge Coaches – drawing upon Welshpool Pickering & Vale of Rheidol GWR coaches |
| Modular Layout Cup | Winner | Laurence Smith | Upchit Creek halt and miniature railway. Mr Clinkers coal merchants. |
| Modular Layout Cup | Highly Commended | Nigel Town | Three modules |
| Modular Layout Cup | Highly Commended | John W Whitbread | Module system station, engine shed |
| Layouts award | Winner | Mendip Vale | |