July 2006
First of all I must apologize for the lack of work to this website, Time has been taken up by our members working so hard on the recent developments on the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway and at Crich, and the east Anglia Transport Museum. When I last worked on the "Latest News Page" I think spring had just arrived, now I am seeing the first early signs of Autumn. However I hope you have been able to keep up with the developments at Thorne by regularly visiting the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway website. Here you will have seen many of the familiar faces of our members taking part in the activities and events they have been involved in.
Already July has been and gone and August is nearing the last few days too. July was always our busiest time of the year at Sandtoft working to get the railway, the Axholme Stores windows redisplayed, event tickets printed and a whole multitude of other things ready including the wonderful task of cleaning the toilets. Yes that was one thing that our late member Rose Hawksworth worked so hard on. The Sandtoft Gathering Event was the highlight of the year.

A contrast in locations for Keith Fox. On the left Keith is driving the Royal Scot locomotive at the July Sandtoft Gathering event whilst on the right we see him July 2006 about to depart at the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway with the steam locomotive at the 2006 Summer Festival Event

October 1st 2006

Once called the "Yorkshire Day" event at Sandtoft was the time when we operated "The Yorkshire Belle" between 1996--2000 Left: Martin Hulks drives through the station on the passing loop with Stephen Hobbs as the guard, whilst to the right the late Brain Mennie prepares Remus for its next journey.

November 2006:

On the photograph directly above we see the locomotive Mufuta being driven by Charlie Furda and a sack trolley loaded with suitcases with Ron Hawksworth. Charlie Furda is one of the volunteer members at the Stockholes Farm Railway only a mile down the road towards Belton. The sack trolley can be seen at the Cleethorpes Light Railway nicely repainted, whilst the electric locomotive was photographed on the 5th November 2006 at the Thorne Memorial Park Miniature Railway. Ron has taken time out to build a bungalow for himself and his wife Wendy, the building of the engine shed at Sandtoft in 1996 proved to be a valuable source of knowledge for them, both of whom are still members of the SMR Group.