Established 1983

Above Left:  The points are set for the locomotive Remus to make its last journey along the tracks at the museum to the loading turntable.
Above Right: Remus being prepared for loading onto the trailer so that it could be taken to safe secure accommodation whilst awaiting the outcome of the groups EGM. However one week later in time for the 2000 Whit Sunday operating day at the Thorne Memorial Park Railway the locomotive was back in steam but on very different

Above: Remus back in steam being driven by SMR group member David Stubbins at Thorne on the Whit Sunday 2000
Upper Right:  The tracks have now been replaced by concrete slabs the engine shed is now being used a  1950's bicycle
Lower Right: Part of the display of lawn mowers in 2003 gracing what was once the former track bed of the Haxey Halt station. The railway shed in the background now houses the collection of bicycles and the period bicycle shop.

2005 part of what is now the "Nature Trail" using the former railway track bed. To the left nearest the camera is a Scots Pine that was planted Christmas Day 1996.
The avenue of Silver Birches came from Hatfield Moors that had been removed during the extraction of peat.

Left 1998 at Sandtoft
The last expansion to the tracks to take place was the extension to the rolling stock siding for the busier days. The coach painted red was taken to Thorne in July 2000 after being in storage for a month when the railway closed at Sandtoft. The cream and brown coaches were returned into storage at Wroot whilst the bogies were to be put under two similar new coach bodies built by the Doncaster and District Model Engineering Society who operate the miniature railway at Thorne Memorial Park. All the tracks including all the point work were all removed by late 2000.
Above Right 2006 at Thorne
The only rolling stock items in this photograph that were not to be seen on the tracks at Sandtoft is the electric locomotive on the outer track and the coach body to the rear with the guard and against the wall in the background. Even the flag once waved off the trains from Sandtoft halt. The smaller electric locomotives "Mufuta" and "Reg" in the background helped to bring the railway back to life in 1994 at Sandtoft. The locomotives were transferred to Thorne in May 2000

The steam locomotive "Koppel" now owned by the Doncaster & District Model Engineering Society Ltd and the electric locomotive "Silver Link" then owned by Raymond Nowell on display. The smaller models in the display cabinets were scratch built by the late Walter Ashton. These have since been exhibited in the model tent at the Thorne & Moorends Summer Festival event with the exception of 2007. The TV was showing a video helping to promote the trolleybuses at the Sandtoft Transport Museum, now known as the Trolleybus Museum at Sandtoft.

Left: Saturday 28 October 1995 the 0-4-0 electric locomotive Mufuta with myself the owner Bob Ashton standing alongside in the Autumn colours of the trees that we planted between 1978 - 1988 at the museum. The coach body Rodney was one of two on loan from our member Charlie Furda.

Right: During May 2000 the locomotive was transferred to the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway, the coach bodies was the returned to Charlie whilst the bogies were put into the SMR storage facilities. In 2001 the two sets of bogies were placed underneath two new coaches built for use at Thorne.

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