About Us

Some initial points to begin.

We are often asked how long we have been at our present location and how many years we have been formed, when we tell them the original Society was formed just after WW2 (around 1945/7) while this track was built during the 1970's, with members coming from all walks of life and all age groups.

Passenger rides are given during summer months, namely during the afternoon of the FOURTH SUNDAY in each month. The exception to this is that Easter Sunday is always our first day for running and this often falls on a Sunday other than a Fourth Sunday. We are affiliated to the Northern Association of Model Engineers making use of their operational directives.

We can run any locomotive/s from five inch..three and a half.. two and a half inch gauge/s on our track on a raised elevation. The track measures almost 1000 feet in length. A fleet of six purpose built passenger cars are used on passenger days while members use their own driving cars behind their own locomotives.

The selection of pictures on the following page shows progress with the creation of the track we see now. Many months/years of dedicated design/building work was undertaken by almost the entire membership at the time. Working mainly at weekends on site with others performing miracles under the 'seemingly unseeing eyes' of works foremen items appeared when required at no real cost. Best feature of some of the pictures is the almost lack of trees in the park (compared to now).

Please bear with us while we up grade the following page/s with the pictures, work is continuing to select the best images, sadly the quality may not be the best as they are in general 'scanned images' from old pictures. Thankyou.