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Easter Weekend At Abbey Park Miniature Railway

All aboard for Easter Bank Holiday fun in miniature as we take a look at the Abbey Park Miniature Railway. This small-gauge railway, run by the Leicester Society of Model Engineers, holds open days for the public to take rides behind various miniature locomotives on Easter Bank Holiday Monday. This mainly consisted of various diesels, but they also have a selection of visiting steam engines on occasion too. We begin with the engines already out on the track, pulling excited passengers around the loops, through tunnels, and past various trees and bluebell woodland. At the small ticket office/signal box, a sign reads “ Miniature Railway Open, fare £1.50” with a queue of eager visitors waiting to ride the rails. Once on the busy platform, the carriages soon fill up, and the trains leave the station displaying more power than their small size would have you believe. Various engines are seen shunting about in the railway, including one based on an American Santa Fe loco and a green and y...

GCR - Miniature Railway Spectacular

At The Miniature Railway Spectacular, The Portable Railway Club (PRC) arrived at the  @GCRofficial to lay some 1,300ft (400m) of temporary line in the goods yard at Quorn & Woodhouse Station Leicestershire. Featuring a great gathering of Steam and Diesel locomotives it made for a unique sight as they ran alongside their full sized counterparts, visitors to the #Rail200 event could get a ticket to ride their choice of locomotive at whichever scale they wished !. The PRC showcased their "Jubilee Track" with 7 1/4" and 5" gauge trains, including goods trains, sidings, and passing loops. My film begins with a green diesel passing by before we see a full sized engine leaving the station and a smaller engine picking up passengers in the foreground. Focusing on the miniature railway we see several trains making their way around the track followed by a diesel and another steam engine named red dragon. At a crossing the green diesel makes another appearance tooting...