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The 75th Anniversary of Strathaven Miniature Railway and 50 years of the Strathaven Model Society will be celebrated today, Saturday 22nd of June, with a civic reception at the park

Passenger hauling will be suspended for approx. 1 hour (from 12.40pm) while the visit of the Depute Lord Lieutenant and our local Provost, who are recognising the work of volunteers and the Railway over these many years, takes place.

Margaret (the original wee train) will be in steam for this celebration and will pull a special train of invited guests.

Thereafter normal running will recommence after our guests depart.

From all of us at the Wee Trains

A very enormous THANK YOU to the anonymous lady who donated £75 to Strathaven Miniature Railway to celebrate our 75th Anniversary.
It’s donations like these along with our volunteers that keep the ‘wee’ train going.

From all of us at the Wee Trains – thank you to this lady and ALL our supporters

Congratulations to the Gala Team for Fifty years of enjoyment to all supporters near and far.

Here’s hoping today is a great success🎉
From all of us at the Wee Train🚂

Two fantastic events in one !
Our Trains will be running Sat & Sun 11-4.30 (weather permitting)

See you there 🛞
From all of us at the Wee Trains🛤️

Extra running on Monday 3rd June from 5pm when the Duck Race is on

Normal running this Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd – 11 -16.30 – for the start of Gala Week

A huge thank you to Neil Arlott for his drone work throughout the day of our 75th Anniversary..!

Tuesday 14th May – 75th Anniversary Celebrations

After an exciting day we are all now relaxing, at least for the day or two, until we gear up again for the weekend.

Huge thank you to all who participated in Tuesday’s amazing 75th anniversary event
Especially all those who travelled from all parts of Scotland and the North of England.

Thank you for all the local support from the Tudor Cafe, Les Hoggan photography and all our members who welcomed and assisted all our guests.

We also got our picture on the front cover of today’s Glasgow Herald

We will be running as normal on Saturday and Sunday this weekend from 11am to 16.30 weather permitting.

Thank you ALL,

From all of us at the Wee Train

What follows is a selection of images and videos from the day’s fun 😁

Drone Shots

Photos

Videos

Wee Trains 75th Anniversary

Right NOW ⏰ it is the 14th of May and so it is the 75th anniversary of both our railway 🛤️ and Margaret, our 2-6-0 locomotive 🛞 

A close run thing 😌 but all the work on Margaret was completed by end of play yesterday, then she was put into steam and tested, passing with flying colours.

Doesn’t she look splendid ? 🎉

All us at The Wee Train are very 🎇 excited 😄 about today 🚂

Wee Trains 75th Anniversary

Tuesday the 14th of May

To celebrate 🎉 this auspicious occaision 🎇 we are holding an open track 🛤️ day for our members and their invited guests from all the other model societies across Scotland and the North East of England.
These folk and their locos will be arriving from 09:00 ! and displays of locos will likely begin at 11:00 ish ⏱️

At around 13:00 our Margaret (the original Wee Train), who will be 75 on the day, will pull a train load of VIPs from the club and lead a cavalcade of other locomotives 🛞
Throughout the day at different times ⌚ locos will take to the tracks.

There will be no public passenger hauling on the day, but everyone is welcome to come along and see everything that is happening and on show 🎪

From all of us at the Wee Train 🚂

75th Anniversary

TWO days and counting down to our 75th anniversary of the railway in Strathaven park. That day will also be the 75th birthday of Margaret, our 2-6-0 steam locomotive.

The FIRST passenger train through out new tunnel Saturday morning, Strathaven Castle emerging from the Cairnhill tunnel on its first run of a busy day in the park. Finishing touches will be completed on Monday ready for the anniversary day on Tuesday.

While the trains were running two of our members were working👷‍♂️ hard 💪 to restore Margaret to running order.
It’s almost finished tho’ we still need to fit some minor fixings to allow her to undergo her steam test on Monday (Close run thing, but it looks like we will make it🤞🏻🤞🏻 )

Thanks 🙏 Jim for leading this work .

From all at the relieved Wee Trains (Phew) 🚂