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 tracks. .

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Upper Right:  The tracks have now been replaced by concrete slabs the engine shed is now being used a  1950's bicycle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 highly acclaimed "Nature Trail" using the former railway track bed. To the left nearest the camera is a Scots Pine that was planted one Christmas Day. The avenue of Silver Birches came from Hatfield Moors that had been removed during the extraction of peat.
This view is in great contrast to the one below on the left. 

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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