Strathaven Miniature Railway will hold its annual Open Track Weekend on the 11th/12th of October.
The Open Track Weekend is when we invite all the other clubs/ societies in Scotland and the North of England to visit our track and bring along locomotives to run on our tracks.
You can visit the track and stand and look on from the public path, and see the visiting locomotives as well as our own engines being run on our home track.
NO PUBLIC RIDES AVAILABLE for this weekend.
With only three days of running left for the 2025 season – this Saturday, Sunday and Monday – we will endeavour to run on all three days from 11am through to 16.30 (weather permitting🌞).
A big THANK YOU to all who have supported the railway this year, whether a regular or a new visitor, we appreciate your time and effort to come and enjoy our piece of nostalgia.
We had several groups visit this year, thank you.
We had families, in some cases three generations, all with their own story of visiting the park and the railway over the years. For our new customers who have visited for the first time, thank you and we hope to see you back in the future.
After the September weekend we will have one more night of operating the trains on Guy Fawkes night. This year the Round Table has planned this for the 1st of November. Trains are running in the dark with the bonfire and fireworks in the background.
Thank you all from all of us at The Wee Train
A HUGE thank you to the volunteers for operating the railway over the two days and Friday evening, without you we could not have had such a successful Balloon Festival.
Thank you to all who attended the railway as customers, we had first timers, regulars and those that went on the train several times over the weekend. Thank you for queueing up and being patient as we tried to carry all who wanted a ride on the trains.
We had small breakdowns, all fixed to keep everything flowing again.
Thank you to those who fixed and repaired broken airlines, carried fuel out to the loco when it ran out of fuel half away around the track.
Customers commented that these excitements, and other little touches too many to mention, all added to the fun on the day.
We will be back to our normal opening times next weekend of Sat/Sun 11:00-16:30.
THANK YOU for your support, from all of us at the WEE TRAIN
Here are some photos of the Wee Train and the Balloons having a great time together – please enjoy 😌
Only 10 days to go to the Strathaven Balloon Festival and its 25th anniversary. This year it will be held over the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of August.
We will be operating the railway in conjunction with this amazing event held in Strathaven Park.
Admission is FREE to the Balloon Festival. The railway will still charge only £1.00 per person riding on the trains.
For more information about the Balloon Festival please see their website link below.
https://www.strathavenballoonfestival.co.uk
We hope to operate a selection of different locos over the three days. Electric, Petrol and of course Steam.
From all of us at the Wee Train
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
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