Miniature Railways

Pecroama

Pecorama at Beer, Devon

A model train enthusiast's dream.  As well as an sizable exhibition of model railways, it has a good long 7 ¼" gauge track, which included a tunnel !  The best miniature railway I've been on.
Mummy and Me having a Ride

Mummy and Me having a Ride at the RSME

Reading Society of Model Engineers 

The nearest live steam to where I live.  Runs first Sunday in the month in the corner of Prospect Park.  Two steam loops and a few model railways inside the main building.

They have just finished laying a ground level 7 ¼" gauge track and building a two platform station complete with foot bridge !
Museum Entrance Ticket
Railway Ticket
Tramway Ticket

Betws-y-coed Railway Museum

A simply delightful museum. The only place we visited twice on our first holiday in North Wales, and we've been back every time since!

It contained :-

  • A steam driven miniature railway.
  • Sizable museum containing many running model railways.
  • A Tram track with an electric tram run off of overhead wires.
  • Miniature dodgem cars

It is right next door to the main railway station.

 

 

Me Driving Toby

Me Driving Toby
Riding on the miniature Steam Train

Riding on the miniature Steam Train

Bickton Woodland Railway

A 7 ¼" gauge railway running round Bickton Park in South Devon.  It ran very slowly and was very bumpy.  I only saw diesel engines.  Very crowded.  Deserves one of Daddy's Rants

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Important Note : Please don't take our comments too seriously - they're just an indication of what we found on the day(s) we visited.  As we keep emphasising, these visits were a long time ago and accordingly, most of the text on this site is now very old.

We don't pretend to have any status or authority.  We don't pretend to be systematic or thorough.  Equally we don't regularly visit places just to assess them.  We simply went out for family trips, often when we find ourselves in that part of the country.  Then, later, when we were playing on the computer, wrote up a few comments about what we remembered.  We might have remembered things wrongly.

Equally, most of our visits were made many years ago now, and a lot can change in just a few years.

Either way our comments are probably no longer representative of the facilities the railways now have.  Why not go along and see for yourself.