20th Nov 2017
We have just reached the end of our 3rd operating season at the Miniature Railway, although it doesn’t seem like 3 years since we first started operations at our new site. I thought this would be an opportune moment to reflect ...
30th Aug 2017
Since my last Blog we have been very busy. Firstly there was the problem with Patricia to resolve. She was only running on one of her two cylinders. We stripped both of them down and got the injectors professionally serviced. After reassembly ...
23rd Apr 2017
Since my last report much progress has been made on several fronts. Firstly we completed two of our three new coaches just in time for the Easter Day Out With Thomas event. It was cutting it rather fine but we managed to ...
6th Feb 2017
Since the end of the 2016 operating season we have started several projects. Firstly we have our new replacement coaches well under way. These were originally two, redundant, 3 car articulated sets purchased from The Ferry Meadows Miniature Railway. They were in poor ...
1st Nov 2016
Completely out of the blue, just a couple of weeks before the Autumn Steam Gala, I received a phone call from Ian Arnott explaining that he owned a miniature Royal Scot Loco based at the Ingfield Light Railway. He continued that ...
21st Aug 2016
Work has been continuing on several fronts at the Miniature Railway during the summer. The new coach frames are nearing completion and two of the four bogies have been rebuilt and repainted. The other two have been re-assembled but have yet to ...
15th Apr 2016
This report details the work undertaken to provide a route for a power cable to our Container located at the remote end of the Miniature Railway. With the works under Blake's Crossing already completed, thanks to the splendid ...
8th Apr 2016
This is a précis of the works have been undertaken through the winter: Patricia Changed the Engine Oil, Air and Oil Filters. Greased all the bearings. One grease nipple had a damaged thread and was replaced.&...
3rd Apr 2016
The event got off to a cracking start for us on Good Friday as we set a new record for the number of passengers carried in a single day, namely 1368. This easily beat our previous best of 1209 set on the last day ...
10th Nov 2015
Following on from the very successful August Thomas event we have been running every Saturday, as we have throughout the season since April. We have also opened the Railway for other events such As “War on the Line” and the &...
20th Aug 2015
We had hoped to get our second platform ready for the August DOWT event but the weather and other priorities conspired against us. None the less we completed the platform ramp paving during the event just leaving some fencing and general tidying ...
3rd Aug 2015
We have taken on long term loan an Inspection Trolley from Matt Bentley, thank you Matt. It looks an attractive little unit. The engine is currently inoperative but we are hopeful we can get it going. If not we have a fallback ...
22nd Jun 2015
For the War on the Line event we decorated some of the recently constructed fencing at Ropley High Level station with various posters with a theme of “Railways at War”. One of our home made posters gave the following advice ...
16th Apr 2015
Firstly apologies for the delay in providing this update. We have been very busy of late trying to get the Miniature Railway ready for the above event but, pleased to report, we did make it! We managed to get one of ...
2nd Mar 2015
Since Andrew Haysoms last progress report (and I must say I thought he did an excellent job of it, certainly keeping me on my toes!) we have installed a sand drag at the eastern (station) end of the line and have commenced ...
31st Jan 2015
Hi all, I’ll start by introducing myself, I’m Andrew and I have been helping out for nearly 5 years and I thought it was time to give Ray a break from writing these updates. He has done a great ...