2019 Season Begins
2019 Miniature Railway Season begins. By Tony Bullock Our railways opened on 31st. March on a cool but bright day for the first open day of 2019. In spite of losing an hour of sleep after changing the clocks people were starting to gather at the Ticket Office around 10:15. The BMES team also made…
Santa Specials 2018
By Tony Bullock 850 People Visited The Grotto! We are pleased that Santa visited our railway on 3 days this year to welcome some 180 families (850 people) to celebrate Christmas with us. Our trains left Haynes End with a blast of whistles and clouds of steam heading to the Grotto at Winterfields for children…
BMES Gala Weekend
BMES Annual Gala The Bedford Model Engineering Society will again be hosting an Annual Gala at the Summerfields Miniature Railways. This year’s event will be held over the weekend of Friday 31st August to Sunday 2nd September. The Society extends a cordial invitation to fellow enthusiasts from other clubs to join us for a weekend…
Summerfields Railway Charity Day
Summerfields Railway Charity Day By Tony Bullock Bank Holiday Monday, 28th May 2018 dawned bright and clear as club members prepared the locomotives, rolling stock and facilities for the Charity Day in aid of Keech Hospice Care. Keech erected a gazebo womanned by them with a tombola table and information about the charity. People began…
Keech Hospice Day – 2018
Special Running In Aid of The Keech Special Running In Aid of The Keech. On Monday 28th May we will again be running our railways in support of the Keech Children’s Hospice, and we will be joined on site by representatives from the hospice. The day will offer all of our normal attractions, and if we…
2018 – A Very Wet Start
By Tony Bullock The 2018 public running season of our railways opened at Easter with all lines operating. This year the weather was being uncooperative with it cool and cloudy on Easter Sunday and cool and very damp on Monday. After the overnight rain, staff arrived early on the Monday to find a torrent running…
Santa Specials 2017
By Tony Bullock Santa Specials 2017 Our Santa Specials this year proved popular and were fully booked by mid-October. The weather was kind to us and it was probably the warmest Santa Weekend we have experienced. A week later and the whole railway was under large quantities of snow so we got this right as…
Hospice Day Update
Keech Hospice Day Update We would like to thank all our visitors who came and supported our Charity Day in aid of the Keech Hospice in Luton. All fares from the railway were donated to Keech and enabled our Chairman, Martin Cusden, to present them a cheque for £1,117 which was gratefully received.
Keech Hospice Day
Special Running In Aid of The Keech On Monday 29th May we will be running our railways in support of the Keech Children’s Hospice. We will be joined on site by representatives from Keech, along with our normal attractions, and are hoping for good weather and lots of visitors. All monies from ticket sales on that…
BMES Gala Weekend 2017
The Bedford Model Engineering Society are holding their Annual Gala at the Summerfields Miniature Railways. This year’s event will be held over the weekend of Friday 1st to Sunday 3rd September. As always we extend a cordial invitation to fellow enthusiasts from other clubs to join us for a weekend of miniature railway enjoyment. Following…