Today is the last official running day for 2023, Saturday the 30th of September.
We wish to thank all our supporters old and new who have been out at the park during the season. 
We will of course still try to do a couple of days during the October school holidays weather permitting.
Please keep eyes 👀 on our Facebook page and website for information about any of these days.
Thank you from the Wee Train
Strathaven Balloon Festival 2023
Scotland’s only Balloon Festival will be held in Strathaven park over three days of the coming weekend – evening of the 25th and two full days of activities the 26/27th of August.
The Miniature Railway will operate over the three days of the Balloon Festival (weather permitting).
With additional volunteers in place we can now open earlier on Friday afternoon
Friday from 3pm till 8.30 pm
Saturday from 9.30 am till 9.00 pm
Sunday 10am though to 8.00 pm.
A big thank you in advance to all the volunteers who will cover these three days. 
Please follow the link below to the website of the Balloon festival for more information.
Looking forward to seeing you all over the weekend 
From all of us at the Wee Train
https://www.strathavenballoonfestival.co.uk/
Scotland’s largest Balloon Festival will be held in Strathaven park over three days, the evening of Friday 25th and two full days of activities on Sat 26th/ Sun 27th of August.
Please follow the link to the website of the Balloon festival for more information.
https://www.strathavenballoonfestival.co.uk/
Information regarding event times and parking is available at this site.
🚂 The miniature railway will operate over the three days weather permitting
Friday from 5pm till 8.30 pm
Saturday from 9.30 am till 9.00 pm
Sunday 10am though to 8.00 pm.
All of the above weather permitting.
A big thank you in advance to all the volunteers who will cover these three days 🙏
From all of us at the Wee Train
Additional Running Day this week
We will be operating the railway on :-
Thursday the 20th from 11:00 am to 16.30 pm.
We have a large group of youngsters 6-14 years old (60+) arriving from Ayrshire visiting the park for their annual visit and they cannot come to Strathaven park without a ride on the trains in the park 
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Therefore we will be open to the public during their annual visit.
Here is a link to their page –
https://www.facebook.com/aceswoodwynd/?locale=en_GB
From all of us at the Wee Train. 
The Wee Train welcomed a new loco at the end of last month and we have now completed the commissioning work on the engine and started to train drivers for this new locomotive.
We have also ordered new badges which should be here by the 23rd of this month. These will be of Neptune and Titan, our two seven and a quarter gauge battery locomotives. It is hoped to have both pulling passengers in the near future.
See pictures of commissioning and the new badges above and here’s a Video of Neptune in action !
From all of us at the Wee Train.
Glasgow Fair Weekend
Weather permitting 
the railway will be open and running our Fair Weekend service from 11am until 4.30pm Saturday, Sunday AND Monday
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If the weather is kind, we’ll hopefully be able to have one of the steam loco’s out on the track (probably Monday) too
We’ll hopefully see you down at Strathaven Park
From all of us at the wee train
On the evening of the 22nd of June, we took delivery of a brand new battery locomotive supplied and built by Abbot Model Engineering.
The locomotive is one of their Neptune 4 (7 1/4″) locomotives, capable of pulling 10 -15 passengers depending on weight etc.
As you can see from the images below the locomotive has been painted in the Strathaven Miniature Railway colours and has a railway totem showing the club’s name.
We are hoping (weather permitting
) to commission this loco on Saturday and put her on display at the steaming bays. She will be used along with Titan, our other battery locomotive to pull passengers when we wish to have a battery (Electric) day in the park.
We will be open as usual this weekend 24th and 25th of June
From all of us at the Wee Train
GALA WEEK
Thank you to Eilidh ( Primary 5 Wester Overton Primary School) for including the railway in her award winning cover for this year’s Gala Week programme. Congratulations. 
Today (Sunday) sees the start of Gala Week in Strathaven.
We will be out to support the park events on Monday with trains running on Monday evening from around 6 pm to 8.30 pm 
A donation bucket will be in operation for this event .
On Saturday 10th June – GALA DAY – we will be running longer than normal as long as we have visitors from all over and far afield who will wish to journey around our tracks.
Running will commence as soon as we are set up but no later than 11am, close of business will depend on how busy the park is at 5pm.
From all of us at The Wee Train.
The sun is shining 
and the railway will be open all three days of this bank holiday weekend.
At least one steam engine will feature each afternoon hauling passengers around our track.
New opening times 11am to 4.30pm, maybe slightly later if we are busy in the park.
Come along and have a ride around the oldest miniature railway track in Scotland 74 years young
From all of us at the Wee Train
We’d like to thank Artianne for coming back and refreshing the original mural on the kiosk which had sun and water damage.
This will now be varnished to preserve this artwork for the future.
While Anne was visiting the park, we commissioned her to paint a new mural on the sidewall of our station building. This has been completed this evening, again our thanks to artianne for this vibrant addition to our kiosk.
Strathaven Miniature Railway 