​Welcome! We are a friendly, long established society and a founder member of the Northern Association of Model Engineers and a non-profit making company limited by guarantee. We promote our hobby by building and operating steam and other powered models; experimentation; encouraging young people to become engineers; maintaining links and holding rallies with other societies; sharing our hobby with our local community; and supporting local charities. We sell light refreshments, ice creams and souvenirs when the railway is open and our premises are wheelchair accessible. We have a carriage funded by the Lottery enabling most wheelchair users to enjoy a ride on the railway. Visitors are always welcome.
We are a model engineering society and all our staff are volunteers. All revenue goes into maintaining the railway and improving facilities or is donated to charity. ​We do not charge for entry to the railway.

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OUR LOCATION
97, 98 and 218 buses from
Sheffield city centre stop near our entrance ​on Abbeydale Road South just after the Industrial Hamlet museum and dam. We are directly opposite house number 283. Satnav​: S17 3LB is closest. Our ​///what3words location​ is grape.slang.town
Dore Railway Station is close by. 
There will be a yellow sign on the grass verge by our entrance gate when we are open to the public.
​Free parking in our field at your own risk. If you park on the road please do not block our neighbours' driveways. Don't park on the grass verges or the council may ticket you.
For safety reasons, ball games, other throwing games and BBQs are not permitted on our premises. ​Dogs are welcome, but must be kept under control and on a short lead. They cannot be taken on the trains.

Our Christmas Lights and Train Rides event in December raised £4,092 for St. Luke's Hospice in just three hours! Thank you so much to everyone who supported the event. The event this year will be on Friday 12th December 5pm to 8pm. Entry free, train rides £2 each all to the charity.

Our Sheffield Children's Hospital Charity day will be on Sunday 3rd August this year. Last August we raised £4,650. Thank you so much to everyone who came to support us. We have donated £34,000 since we started the event. Click on the logo to visit the Charity's website.

Please click here to see how easily you can help to transform a child's life with cleft palate surgery.

We're not just a miniature railway!

Our hobby encompasses many different areas of interest, not just miniature railways. Here three members discuss the best way to go about constructing a steam powered stationary engine model of one once used in factories.

A variety of model engineering exhibits. Similar ones will be on show at our exhibition on Sunday 6th July. There are stationary engines, clocks, traction engines as well as railway wagons.

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