22 October 2008 by Peter Bryant
The Railway Channel have included the formal launch of the Miniature Railway Museum Trust and the Friends of Miniature Railway Museum Trust in Show 3 of their 'Railway World' series.
20 September 2008 by Peter Bryant
The first museum for Britain's miniature railways, the Miniature Railway Museum Trust (MRMT) was officially launched on Saturday 6th September. This new group will preserve, display and interpret items relating to the history of miniature railways. The Trust is looking at potential sites, and one candidate is near the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway, itself already well known for its collection of historic miniature railway equipment and past.
30 August 2008 by Tim Dunn
The first museum for Britain's miniature railways, the Miniature Railway Museum Trust (MRMT), will launch on Saturday 6th September. We hope that the museum will be based near the Cleethorpes Coast Railway, a 15" gauge heritage miniature railway in Lincolnshire.
On Saturday 6th September, the MRMT will also launch its supporting and fundraising group "The Friends of the Miniature Railway Museum Trust" which enables the public to join in with projects and contribute.
The MRMT's first project will also be on show a display on the history of the Sutton Miniature Railway which is based in the Griffin Hall of the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway. The annual Sutton Miniature Railway Gala coincides with this public launch :the entire weekend of the 6th and 7th of September will be focused on this prolific railway from Sutton Coldfield that closed in 1962 and was moved almost in its entirety to Cleethorpes in 2001 after almost 40 years of storage.
It is hoped that the new display will be formally opened at 12.30 pm on Saturday 6th September by John Tidmarsh, an ex-Sutton Miniature Railway driver, and author of "The Sutton Coldfield 15 inch gauge railway", published by Plateway Press.