Brooklands Museum's New Year's Day Classic Gathering is on 1 January 2027, 9am to 4pm, in admission. Cars up to 1997 can park on site; 8,100 came last year.

Brooklands Museum in Weybridge holds its New Year’s Day Classic Gathering on Friday 1 January 2027, from 9am to 4pm. It is the museum’s biggest day of the year: on 1 January 2026 it drew more than 8,100 visitors and 1,200 cars and motorcycles, a record, according to the museum. Entry is included in a normal museum ticket, and anyone with a car or motorcycle registered up to and including 1997 can drive it in and park it on site.

The quick answer

  • When: Friday 1 January 2027, 9am to 4pm. Classic vehicles can arrive from 8.30am; the museum’s exhibits open at 10am
  • Where: Brooklands Museum, Brooklands Drive, Weybridge KT13 0SL. Classic cars use Campbell Gate, off Brooklands Road, KT13 0QN
  • Price: included in museum admission; members go free. The museum has not yet said which price band applies on the day (see below)
  • Bring your car: yes, if it was registered up to and including 1997 (an R-prefix plate or older). Modern sports cars and supercars are welcome too
  • Is it on? Yes. The museum lists the 2027 date on its events calendar and says tickets will be sold on the door, though it recommends booking ahead

Date, times and tickets

The museum’s event page gives the date as 1 January 2027, 9am to 4pm, with the event “included in Museum admission” and members going free. It says tickets are available on the door, but also that “this event is always extremely popular, pre-booking is recommended.”

The museum has not published a separate price for the day. Its tickets and prices page lists winter off-peak prices from Monday 2 November of £24.35 an adult and £10.15 for children aged 4 to 17 online in advance, or £25.70 and £10.65 on the day. It also says those off-peak prices exclude event days and school holidays, and 1 January is both. This autumn’s peak prices, which ran to 1 November, were £25.70 and £10.70 online, £27.10 and £11.25 on the day. Under-fours and carers go free at any time. We will add the New Year’s Day price when the museum publishes it.

Online tickets are sold at the advance price until midnight the day before your visit. Tickets are non-refundable.

Bringing a classic car or motorcycle

The rule is the registration date. Vehicles, including motorcycles, registered up to and including 1997 can come on site; the museum notes these carry an R prefix or older, such as R123 ABC. Modern sports cars and supercars registered from 1998 onwards are “very welcome too”, and get their own entrance.

The museum says it will use every space on site, so expect cars on the Finishing Straight, the Aircraft Park, the Members’ Banking, around Concorde and in the Motoring Village. Arrival points, from the event page:

  • Pre-1997 classics and pre-booked pre-1997 clubs: Campbell Gate, off Brooklands Road, from 8.30am. Satnav postcode KT13 0QN; what3words unions.added.finishing
  • Brooklands members in pre-1997 classics: Vickers Gate, from 8.30am until noon. After noon, cars are sent to Campbell Gate
  • Sports cars and supercars from 1998 on, and pre-booked clubs: the Heights entrance off Wellington Way, following the temporary yellow signs, from 8.30am until noon. After noon, Campbell Gate

Parking if you come in an ordinary car

Visitor parking opens at 9am in The Heights, off Wellington Way, following the temporary yellow signs. Parking is free. If The Heights fills, the museum says overflow parking will be in the Community Park with a park and ride service. Blue Badge holders have a reserved area in The Heights from 9am; Blue Badge holders driving a classic are guided to a space on site by marshals.

Pedestrians can come in from 9am through the normal admissions entrance or Campbell Gate. Our roadworks and travel page will carry any closures announced for that week, and parking in Elmbridge has the council car parks in Weybridge town.

By train and bus

The museum’s getting here page names Weybridge as the nearest station, about 30 to 35 minutes from London Waterloo on South Western Railway, then a taxi, the 436 bus (Falcon Buses, best stop Mercedes-Benz World / Brooklands Hotel) or a 20 to 30 minute walk. New Year’s Day timetables are often reduced, so check South Western Railway and the 436 times for 1 January before you set out.

What else is on the day

The museum lists live music, a winter barbecue and breakfast and lunch stalls, with traders booked through its event trader page. A museum ticket also covers the rest of the site: the cars, motorcycles and aircraft collections, the London Bus Museum and the simulators. The museum has not yet named the 2027 performers.

What happened last year

The museum’s report on the 2026 gathering, published on 9 January 2026, says the event has been part of the calendar for more than 20 years and is now its largest. It counted over 8,100 visitors and 1,200 classic cars, motorcycles and modern sports cars and supercars, a record. It describes vintage Bentleys, three pre-war Lagondas and two 1930s Cadillacs in the Paddock, members’ classics filling the Aircraft Park, Triumph TRs in the Motoring Village, and music from the vocal trio The Knightingales and the saxophonist Bob Webb. Alex Patterson, the museum’s director and chief executive, called it “our biggest event ever”.

The museum is a charity, and it says events like this pay for investment in the site.

Sources

More dates in our What’s On in Elmbridge this month listings.