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Coate Water Miniature Railway: a great
place to visit in the summer holidays Roves Farm

Although we have celebrated our
fiftieth year of running a railway A great family day out, come rain or shine
in Coate Water Country Park the
volunteers of the North Wilts Model
Engineering Society are really very
young at heart, writes Ken Parker.
Trains run from 11am to 5pm
in the summer and to dusk in the
winter, on Saturdays and Sundays,
except the third Saturday in the
month when we are closed for
member training. OPEN DAILY
The cost is £1.20 per ride for all extended, which allows us to hire until 23rd December, 10am- 5pm
ages. it out for children’s birthday parties
Work parties take place every which include rides on a dedicated Animals, Activities & Play
Tuesday to maintain the exist- train.
ing railway and currently we are Members also built a special for the whole day!
building the extension down to needs coach so that people in
the Richard Jefferies Museum and wheelchairs and their carers can be
back, which will double the current transported around the track. Summer
length of half a mile. Our aim is have the extension Holiday Themes
Fifty years ago the railway running for the public in 2016
consisted of a short raised track although the planned tunnels will including Jurassic
with no facilities. Everything to run take several years to finish. Funds Farm, Superheroes,
the attraction had to be brought for all projects come from ticket Bear Hunt &
to the site including the water. money so the more you visit and
Over the years additional facilities ride our trains the sooner we can Neverland!
were added as income from public complete our plans.
openings was reinvested. We’ve always keen to meet people
Volunteers have built a proper sta- interested in helping run the rail- Sevenhampton, Nr. Swindon 01793 763939
tion, a small clubhouse, workshop, way. Contact us and also see details www.rovesfarm.co.uk
carriage sheds and the signal box. In of public running times via
recent years the clubhouse has been www.nwmes.co.uk

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