The BBC do a ‘What’s On’ feature every Friday morning from 09:00 that shines a spotlight on events taking place at the weekend which gives event organisers (like us) an opportunity to spread the word and encourage their listeners to come along – And we’re on this Friday (1st Aug) 10:35 😁🎉
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002gg17
The programme runs 09.00 -12.00.
From all of us at the Wee Trains 🚂
The Wee Trains will be running on Monday 9th June for the Duck Race from 4-8pm (weather permitting)
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On Wed 16th May at Strathaven Park we celebrated the 76th year of Margaret and the miniature railway in the park.
A huge thank 🙏 you to our guests who visited us and brought with them a great selection of steam and battery locomotives.
A great team effort 🙌🏻 from all our volunteers who assisted with unloading and loading of visitors locos.
Thanks to Angus 🙏 in the kiosk feeding the early arrivals with hot rolls and a selection of fried items, and also to the team in the pavillion sproviding such a lovely lunch.
Our juniors arrived after school and added to the fun as they all vied for a locomotive to drive from the Class 67 to Neptune and others.
Thanks to Duane, Angus and Ian 🙏 for the selection of pictures below.
All of us at The Wee Train🚂 thanks everyone for a great 🌞 day 🎉
Wednesday the 14th of May we will celebrate 🎉 76 years of the railway being in the park at Strathaven.
It will also be ” Margaret’s ” 76th birthday and to celebrate we will replicate the 13.00 whistle, on Margaret’s first day of running in the park all those years ago.
This will be an Open Track Day with visitors from other clubs bringing an assortment of different locomotives to run on our tracks.
We will NOT be open for public running but you are very welcome to come and look over the fence and see what is going on.
Thank you 🙏 to all who have volunteered over the last 50+ years from the Model Society to keep this wonderful link with the past still running today.
From all of us at the Wee Train 
The Wee Train will be open this weekend Saturday, Sunday and Easter Monday from 11:00 to 16.30 – weather permitting.
We hope to be able to run a steam locomotive over the weekend, possibly on Saturday and Monday depending on the volunteers available.
We hope to see you at the park over the weekend.
From all of us at The WEE Train
Thank you to all who visited the railway at the weekend.
We all enjoyed the amazingly good weather 🌞 and the trains ran on both days with full coaches on most journeys.
THANK YOU 🙏 for giving us a great start to the new season.
Below are a couple of pictures of the first passengers on the new carriages.
On Monday we held a driver awareness day with several of our juniors in attendance.
A good day was had by all thank you to the parents who started with us while the juniors had fun on different locomotives.
From all of us The Wee Train
Almost time for the new season to start, at a slightly earlier date than initially thought.
We are all ready for the season and are ready to welcome old and new supporters of the miniature railway this weekend.
Running both days from 11.00 through to 16.30 weather permitting.
We were contacted by the Daily Record, Lanarkshire Live and the EK News.
They have just published the following article online – see the link below, next week it will be in hardcopy in the EK News.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone over the new running season starting tomorrow.
From all of us at The Wee Train
Woo hoo 
Only ONE week to go before we start our new season !
This Saturday coming, the 29th March, at 11.00 am weather permitting our first trains of the year will be ready to take passengers birling around our track again.
We previously intimated that we will have a BIG SURPRISE to start the season.
And here it is, we have been working all winter in preparing a set of six new carriages ready for next weekend.
See below the pictures of the new carriages which have all been fitted with new airbrake systems to make them compatible with our locomotives.
These carriages were supplied by Abbots Model Engineering and then we did all the conversions to our specifications.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the park next week.
From all of us at the Wee Train
Exciting News…the 2025 Season is nearly here.
We have been busy maintaining the rolling stock and locomotives ready for the start of the new season at the end of this month.
Still several pieces of work to be completed from our winter maintenance list but all going well we will start back on the 29th of March.
We will have a surprise to share with all our followers and new visitors alike very shortly.
Looking forward to seeing you all back at the park in the near future
From all of us at the Wee Train
During the summer we were asked by the BBC children’s section if we could assist with close up shots of a steam loco 🚂 as they were making a new film called the (Primrose Railway Children).
We assisted with this at several locations, in Glasgow studios and at St Fillans for an outdoor shoot.
The programme has now been released 👀 and is available on the IPlayer and will also be shown on BBC1 during the holidays.
We must have been involved with over five hours of filming 📹 but it looks like most if it has ended up on the cutting floor. If you know what you are looking 👀 for you will see Cairhill dressed up as the BoNess for close up work. All Cairnhill’s brass work was blackened to make it look more like the real loco used.
A big thank you 🙏 to Jay who did all the preliminary work.
Link to the BBC site or look it up on the iplayer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00263zv/the-primrose-railway-children
A few photos of the filming fun and games
Strathaven Miniature Railway 