Last site update
Important did
you loose a memory card for a cam at the August event?
Please email
if you did as we found one on the tunnel
Welcome to The Stapleford
Miniature Railway 
The SMR is based in Stapleford Park near
Melton Mowbray, Leics, England
LE14
2SF
Official home page of the
With nearly 2 mile of scenic track, the one
fifth scale SMR is home to the brand new East African 31 class
superb scale British
LMS Jubilee and GWR Saint and the mighty NYC Niagara and NKP
Please
note that while endeavours are made on public days to run all the engines, no
guarantee can be made for a particular loco being available
Note the Jubilee is out of action now until 2011 see projects page
Maintained
and operated by the "Friends
of the Stapleford Miniature Railway"
Supporting
Although
the railway is on care and maintenance throughout the year,
It is private apart from the two summer open
dates
Please do not visit us at any other time.
Following
our August bank holiday weekend event, the railway is not open now to the
general public until summer 2010
Stapleford Steam Sat and Sun 19th and 20th June 2010
Open weekend Sunday and BH Monday 29th-30th Aug 2010
FSMR SITE INDEX
The SMR 2010 events and directions
History of the SMR (1957 to 1982)
History
of the FSMR (90’s to present)
The Loco Shed for all info on the SMR loco fleet
Online
SMR movies YOUTUBE
links page
The "Avengers" visit to the SMR
New station
construction project
Other
railway and related links
I&G Steam garden railways FSMR
page
.
Please visit our corporate sponsors who have donated
construction materials recently for which we are very grateful:
Suppliers
of the SMR track ballast stone
Supplier
of new Station roofing slates
Supplier
steel sheeting work for the station canopy renewal
Supplier
of the new station bricks
Supplier
of the fast flooring “beam and block” solution for the new station
Supplier
of insulated blocks for the new station internal walls
Consolidated Manufacturing
Corporation LTD
Suppliers of architectural corner stone detailing and stooled cills for the new station
Wickes home improvement centres
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Other
Areas outside this site
Check out the local weather at nearby
RAF Cottesmore and Wittering
To see some great pictures of previous years “Stapleford Steam”
events, follow the link outside to these excellent websites
Steampower pictures of Stapleford Steam June 2005
Nick Tozer
Photographic June2008
Nick Dodson of Tele Rail (Rail
films) has made a DVD of the SMR from start to present day, new for summer 2009
For your convenience, it can be
purchased from the station gift shop during our 2010 events
However, should you be unable to
visit the SMR, please contact Nick at the above website
The SMR is also proud to be linked
to the following web-rings
please also see the railways comprehensive Links page
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both in text and graphical form remains copyright of the FSMR and must not be reproduced
in any form without the written consent of the webmaster, or the original
copyright holder in the case of acknowledged third party photographs.
Nigel Spencer FSMR
1997 - 2009
visits since feb2005
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