Author: strathavenminiaturerailway

Thank you to all who visited the railway over the last three days. Saturday and Sunday were both very cold with unexpected heavy rain showers. In between the showers we had several families and groups come along to support the railway.

On Monday we had our best day so far this year with large numbers of new visitors along with many regulars out enjoying some spring sunshine. On two of the days we managed to run a steam locomotive – most of the afternoon on Saturday and Monday.

A BIG thank you to all the volunteers who manned the railway over these three days.

From all of us at the Wee Train

P.S. thank you to our visitor who shared the photo below.

Work continues in the workshop, with one of our steam locomotives, Cairnhill, passing both Hydraulic and steam testing.
A new fire grate was also fitted at this time. 

We also took delivery of a new Hydraulic table pictured below with Cairnhill sitting on the it.
This device will be used in the park to unload locomotives from members and visitors cars or trailers, making it easier 💪🏻 to access our track 🛤️

From all of us at the Wee Train 🚂

Our up and coming 77th anniversary will be held in the park, as we always do, on Thursday 14th May.
We will have several visiting locomotives visiting the park on the day.
We were also very fortunate to have an article published in Heritage Steam Magazine publicising the event.
Please see the article below. 

Note we won’t be open for public rides on that day but spectators can watch from outside the fence and see the wide variety of locos speeding around 👍🏻

From all of us at the Wee Train 🚂
77 this year and still going strong 💪🏻😁🎉

This Sat 18th & Sun 19th.
We are scheduled to open 11-4.30 both days and the weather forecast is not looking too bad 🫨
If we close early we will post on FaceBook 🚂🚂🚂

Our new Black 5 in the final round of painting, with final reassembly planned for, hopefully, mid April. The loco’s nameplate, numbers and LMS logo on tender, will all be in place soon. 

Then the loco will be taken around to the park, where the commissioning process will start and after several weeks of works she should be ready for passenger hauling. 

Our Holmside has also been reassembled, for the first time in many years 🎉
The boiler has been hydraulically tested, next will be steam and running testing to ensure her fitness for purpose 👍🏻 

A big thank you 🙏🙏 to all who have worked long and hard 💪🏻 on these locos to bring them to this stage, almost ready to head to the park and pull their weight 🏋🏻 

It’s only four days to go before our first running day of the new season – Saturday 28th April 🎉

Last minute maintenance and preparation work is almost completed and should be all ship shape after this Thursday’s final testing 🛤️💪🏻 

Thank you 🙏 to all the volunteers who have helped with the full range tasks on the winter work list to get the railway ready for another season.

Carriages were washed and cleaned, brakes tested, locomotives given their final servicing and a test run.
Another team has been busy levelling and ballasting the track to get it ready for the start of the year.
There is work that will be ongoing during the summer as we could not do everything in the cold 🥶 and wet ☔conditions. 

Looking forward to seeing regular and new customers alike during the year. 

From all of us at The Wee Train 🚂

We will be back soon and this will be our 77th anniversary of the railway running in the park.

We are very busy 💪🏻 with maintenance and repairs of the track🛤️ and our rolling stock🚞, together with building a new loco which should appear at the park this summer.

If all goes to plan we will open for the last weekend in March, if we cannot get the all our work completed it will be the following week (Easter Sat, Sun and Mon). lease see below some pictures of maintenance and work on both new and old locomotives.

Looking forward to welcoming everyone back for a new season.

From all of us at the Wee Train

We are busy now with our winter maintenance programme as considerable work must be done before we are ready for the new season.
We are planning on re-opening on Saturday 28th March or 4th April depending on when the work is completed. 

If you are in the park over the coming weeks you may see our members busy inspecting track and rolling stock.

In the workshop activity also continues, especially on the new build of our scale steam locomotive, an LMS Black 5.
We are nearing the completion of several years work on this amazing loco which, once ready, will undergo running-in mileage in the summer, before passenger hauling duties commence, hopefully by the end of the year.

Thank you 🙏 to all our volunteers keeping this railway going 💪🏻💪🏻
NOW in our 77th year 🎉🙌🏻 

From all of us at the Wee Train🚂

We are now closed for the 2025 season.

A huge Thank You to all who supported and visited Strathaven Miniature Railway this year.

A huge thank you to the dedicated volunteers who give up their time to keep the wee train running.

We will return Spring 2026🐰🐣🐥

We will post on Facebook our reopening date .

Thank you from all of us at the Wee Train

RIDE the Train in the DARK, this Guy Fawkes night in Strathaven the 1st of November.
This is our last operating event for 2025.
🎆🚂🎆🚂🎆🚂🎆🚂🎆🚂🎆🚂🎆
The Round Table will be putting on their annual display this coming Saturday.
Round Table timeline as below.
Gates open 5.30pm
Bonfire 7.00pm
Fireworks 7.30pm.
See their website or facebook page – entry by ticket only.

We will operate at least one steam locomotive on the night along with our petrol driven diesel outline locomotives.
Depending on weather we decorate the track with lights, while the trains are running on our track.
Cash and card accepted on the night at our entrance to the railway.
See you there !
From all of us at the WEE Train 🚂

Spooky 👻