"Remus". its future is now being decided. After serving at Sandtoft for 17 years and then at the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway from 2000--2009 the locomotive now needs another major overhaul. Cost of parts are rising. Sadly the builder Harold Dyson and Ron Smelt who have over the years helped to maintain and service the locomotive are not too well. One of the newer members of the Doncaster & District Model Engineering Society who operate the miniature railway at Thorne has offered to carry out some of the work. David Stubbins who has driven the locomotive for some 12 years is seen her driving the locomotive at Sandtoft in 1999.
Welcome to the website for the Sandtoft Miniature Railway group. This website has now been up and running since 2000, some 17 years after the formation of the group to operate a miniature railway at the Sandtoft Transport Centre in 1983. The group operated the railway at Sandtoft from 1983 until 2000. The miniature railway was run very successfully during those years and became a very huge attraction with the visitors, especially the children. Due to major operational problems at Sandtoft the SMR group had to cease all operations in May 2000. The group was invited by Doncaster & District Model Engineering Society Ltd to transfer their operations to the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway some five miles away from Sandtoft. Our members are presently active at the this miniature railway on a regular basis and have successfully obtained a large amount of funding and sponsorship for projects at Thorne. Information about the 2008 operations at Thorne can be obtained by visiting their website click here By contrast to our railway activities six of our members have been very involved with the Friends of Doncaster Grand Theatre. Thanks to the hard work by theses members the Victorian Theatre built in 1899 has been saved from being demolished. Currently good progress is being made to re-open the theatre in 2009. If you would like to obtain further information about this project please visit their website http://www.friendsofthegrandtheatre.co.uk/ Another venture is that several of our members are involved with local community radio in Thorne www.thornemoorendscommunityradio.co.uk We are now helping to get the radio station back on the air in 2009, with a 5 year licence that has now been granted by OfCom.
The "Out and About" feature has returned to Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway website. New pages include views of the new A1 locomotive "Tornado". There are views at the National Railway Museum York and in Doncaster Station. Also included in this feature are some views of the "Flying Scotsman" stripped down to its frame. Links are provided to take you to the NRM website and that of the A1 Trust.
Click here or on the photograph to see the feature about Thurnscoe. You may also click on the image below to go to the "Out and About Index" page
A rail Journey to Kiverton Park via Kelham Island Sheffield 7th March 2009
The latest "Out and about" feature above was not exactly planned to include Kiverton Park, visit this latest feature to find out why. Click onto the Kiverton Park station for more details.
The "Out and About" features on the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway website are now hosted on this website.
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