Miniature

Help the Nene Valley Railway build a new engine shed – in 5 inch gauge!

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Gareth Evans

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12th March 2021

The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) is appealing for support to help complete the engine shed for its new 5ins gauge Wansford Miniature Railway. Expected to open during the 2021 season, the line will connect the play area with the NVR’s workshop, providing a welcome additional attraction on site as well as a training aid. Trackwork…
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Busy weekend at Guildford

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Sam Hewitt

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28th September 2019

GUILDFORD Model Engineering Society (GMES) held its annual gala over the weekend of July 6-7. The club was formed in 1954 and moved to Stoke Park, Guildford in 1958, where it leases land in the eastern end of the park. Access is from London Road at Burchatts Farm Gate. There are passenger lines of…
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Pilgrim returns to service at Watford Miniature Railway

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Sam Hewitt

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28th September 2019

MUCH-travelled 0-6-0T Pilgrim (D King 1980) is visiting the 10¼in-gauge Watford Miniature Railway (WMR) for the railway’s 60th anniversary season (RM July, p84). It arrived on August 6 following boiler work at Denver Light Railway, Birmingham. Pilgrim was built for the Wells & Walsingham Railway, Norfolk, running there from the line’s opening in 1982 until…
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Old and new attractions at Newby Hall Railway

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Sam Hewitt

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27th September 2019

A VISIT by Narrow Gauge Railway Society members to the 10¼in-gauge Newby Hall Railway on May 12 found No. 4433 Ivatt Atlantic (David Curwen & Edgar Newbery 1965) recently arrived from the Audley End Miniature Railway, Essex, via a March 12 auction (RM May, p84). The 4-4-2 did not appear to have entered service yet and…
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VIDEO: Hornby Margate open weekend

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Gareth Evans

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25th September 2019

There were smiles all-round in a corner of Margate over the weekend of August 17-18 as the doors were opened to Hornby’s spiritual home.
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Beale Railway commemorates park trustee Richard Howard

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Sam Hewitt

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24th July 2019

THE Alan Keef 0-6-0DH steam-outline loco delivered new to the 10¼in-gauge Beale Railway in February 2018 and named Howard is seen on March 10. Its identity is confirmed as Keef 103 of 2017, not as previously stated. The terminus station is called Howard’s Halt, which like the loco, is named in memory of Richard Howard,…
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Watford miniature line celebrates diamond jubilee

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd July 2019

THE 10¼in-gauge Watford Miniature Railway marked its 60th anniversary on April 27-28 with a gala event at Cassiobury Park. The resident locos were joined by 2-4w-2P (Shepperton Metal Products 1970), which ran on the line until the early 1990s, visiting from Vanstone Woodland Railway, Hertfordshire. An exhibition of photos depicted the railway over the years…
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East Kent’s growing attractions…

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Sam Hewitt

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17th July 2019

THE standard-gauge East Kent Railway (EKR), near Dover, continues to develop the attractions on offer to visitors. These include the 7¼in-gauge Knees Woodland Miniature Railway, opened in 2015, sited next to Shepherdswell station. Locos used are petrol, diesel and battery, with the main traction on March 24 provided by No. 5, a scale replica of a…
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Cleethorpes gala to host visiting locos

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Gareth Evans

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8th July 2019

Two Exmoor-built locomotives to visit the line for the first time
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Contrasting locos debut at Norwich club track

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Sam Hewitt

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21st May 2019

The builder is unknown, but it is possibly of pre-Second World War origin.
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