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Strathaven Miniature Railway title: Strathaven Miniature Railway – Celebrating 75 years in Strathaven in 2024

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On the 14th of May the Miniature Railway celebrates 77 years in the park.

We have invited friends from all the Scottish and North of England societies to join us in the celebration. We are expecting several visiting locomotives, along with our own trains.

Margaret our 2-6-0 loco will also celebrate her birthday tomorrow (shhh! 77 years young). She will ta...


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Thank you to all who visited the railway over the last three days. Saturday and Sunday were both very cold with unexpected heavy rain showers. In between the showers we had several families and groups come along to support the railway.

On Monday we had our best day so far this year with large numbers of new visitors along with many regulars out enjoying some spring ...


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Work continues in the workshop, with one of our steam locomotives, Cairnhill, passing both Hydraulic and steam testing.
A new fire grate was also fitted at this time. 

We also took delivery of a new Hydraulic table pictured below with Cairnhill sitting on the it.
This device will be used in the park to unload locomotives from members and visit...


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Our up and coming 77th anniversary will be held in the park, as we always do, on Thursday 14th May.
We will have several visiting locomotives visiting the park on the day.
We were also very fortunate to have an article published in Heritage Steam Magazine publicising the event.
Please see the article below. 

Note we won’t be open for publi...


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This Sat 18th & Sun 19th.
We are scheduled to open 11-4.30 both days and the weather forecast is not looking too bad
If we close early we will post on FaceBook


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