Railway Blogs

Coronation Day is Here

Flags are flying and the trains are ready.
We are running from now until 4.30pm (weather permitting) so get along to Strathaven Park if you can.
We have our commemorative badges on sale today, if you’d like one just ask one of the volunteers

Coronation Weekend

We will be open all three days of the bank holiday weather permitting
Our new opening times are 11am to 16.30pm, on all three days.

Remember to purchase your limited edition (only 250 made) Coronation Badge, only £2.00 each, while stocks last.
If the weather is kind to us at the weekend (if not bring your wellies, raincoats, sou’westers, etc.) we hope to have Margaret and Eva in steam over the three days

Looking forward to seeing you at the railway this long weekend.

From all of us at the Wee Train

FIRST MAY BANK HOLIDAY

We will be open all three days of the bank holiday weather permitting.
Our new opening times are 11:00 am to 16:30 pm, on all three days.

Remember and purchase your limited edition Coronation Badge, only £2.00, while stocks last.

Look out for an exciting piece of news in the coming weeks about our locomotives.

Looking forward to seeing you at the railway this weekend.

From all oif us at the Wee Train

Coronation Day

As the trains will be running on Coronation Day 6th May , we will commemorative badges available to purchase for £2 each from now onwards. Just a little momento of a trip on the wee train on a special day.
Ask any of the volunteers if you’d like to buy one.

We’ll be running on Saturday and Sunday this weekend from 12 until 4.30pm (weather permitting)

See you there

The Sun is SHINING and we are ready for the Easter holiday weekend

Running will commence on Saturday at 12:00 and keep going till 16:30. If we are ready earlier, we’ll start then.

Similar running times on Sunday and Monday weather permitting please check our Facebook page if in doubt.

The Wee Train and friends are looking forward to seeing new and regular customers over the weekend

Colouring pages available for the youngsters until they are finished

From all at the Wee Train.

First Weekend of the railway

Thank you to all our visitors to the park and to the Low Parks Museum over the weekend – see all the ‘fun of the fair’ below

It was good to see regular supporters of the railway and new customers over the two days
It was also good to hear that visitors to the museum also visited the park to see the big locos in action pulling passengers around our track in the park.

We look forward to seeing you all again hopefully in the near future

We will be open the Easter weekend Saturday, Sunday AND MONDAY from noon to 16.30 weather permitting

From all of us at the “Wee Train”

ALMOST TIME – WE ARE READY

Only 24 hrs until we start our new running season for 2023.
Our 74th year of the Wee Train running in Strathaven Park

Trains will be running from NOON tomorrow and the same on Sunday.

Also this weekend, we will be putting on an exhibition at the Low Waters Museum, Hamilton – on Saturday 10am to 16.30 and on Sunday Noon to 16.30. There will be a display of train related items in one of the rooms, plus a portable track outside in the courtyard giving real train rides !

All at the Wee Train really hope to see YOU this weekend

With only eleven days to the start of the New Season we have been steam testing and checking over both of our locomotives Margaret and Eva.
Both successfully passed inspection ready to start the new season on the 1st of April.

Weather permitting we will have at least one of these locomotives out over the weekend along with Strathaven Castle or Abberton.
Looking forward to seeing both our regular and new customers at the park this year.

Card machine and cash taken , still only ONE POUND per passenger

From all of us at The Wee Train

We are getting things together for you all

Not long now till the Wee Train will be back running in the park
We are coming to the end of our winter servicing and maintenance programme which seems to be a longer process each year.
The carriages and locomotives are all maintained and the track inspected , now only Margaret and Eva require a steam test and then we are ready for the new season starting on the 1st of April 2023 at 12.00.

We will also be returning to Low Parks Museum in Hamilton on 1st and 2nd of April to display and provide rides on a portable track over these two days.

As tickets will still be only £1.00 per passenger we really look forward to seeing you at the Park supporting the railway.

See you soon – from all of us at the Wee Train.

Some of the work that has been carried out at the Park

GUY FAWKES 5th of November

One week to go until Remember Remember the 5th of November
We will be running trains in the park, weather permitting with at least one steam locomotive, hauling passengers, running from approximately 17:30 -21:00

Come and experience the railway in the dark illuminated by fairy lights and coloured floodlights around the track, while the bonfire and Fireworks display is taking place up the hill in the park.

The bonfire and fireworks display is run and organised by the local Roundtable with the bonfire being lit around 19.00hrs – see their website for information

Rides on the trains for this evening will be by donation bucket at our entrance gate in the park.

Thank you from all of us at the Wee Train