The first Sunday of the new Autumn/Winter Timetable saw brilliant warm sunshine something not forecast a few days previously. This was the second Sunday that the Farmers Market was held in its new location in the Old Peoples Centre on Church Street in Thorne. There is good positive feedback about the indoor location. There is room for several outdoor stalls if required.

Plenty of clouds of smoke as the fire is light on the locomotive "Koppel" brought along for the afternoon steam service by Mike and John. The electric locomotive "The Duke" last used for the Summer Festival Event in July has had a new set of batteries purchased enabling it to see some service for the Autumn and Winter service. 

Above right the younger members of the railway carry out some repairs to the roof of the former air raid shelter. During the last few days of the heavy rain has leaked into the building via what was the chimney for the stove that once kept the  shelter warm during the war. The stove was removed many years ago.  I am sure we have now made the remains of the chimney watertight again. No doubt this weeks coming bad weather will put it to the test!

Sunday 26th October 2008 All quiet in the park until our members arrive to carry out some much needed maintenance  work on the rolling stock. It was time for Remus's tender and boiler to be flushed out plus some cleaning out of the boiler tubes.

David and Matthew working with the tender, whilst some Brasso makes the copper pipes and boiler lagging brass bands really gleam in the morning sunshine so that the locomotive would look its best for the next operating day on the 2nd November for the Farmers Market Special.
Also on Sunday Keith tells me both of the Societies coaches have were fitted with multi-height coupler. We are now looking to possibility of fitting similar couplings fitting to the Sandtoft Miniature Railway Groups coaches that are on loan to the D&DMESL.

A Day out in Barnsley Taking advantage of our over 60's Travel Passes a day out in Barnsley is an attractive proposition in true Yorkshire Tradition "anything for nowt" is not to be missed. A train journey from Kirk Sandall Station and changing at Meadowhall for Barnsley was not be missed on Friday 10th October. We were very impressed with "Sailor Sid's Sweet" in the market. An excellent market with a huge range of stalls, but be quick the planners have ideas for a new market! The miners underground tub is one of two on display in the town centre.
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Doncaster Weather Webcam   At last Doncaster has its own weather station and webcam not too far from where I live. Not only does the website give you the current weather for Doncaster you can view the weather charts for Britain and Europe. It also shows lightning strikes, cloud cover, flood maps, satellite images. So before making that journey to Doncaster if you want to check if its sunny or snowing then this is the website to have a look at first. As the railway website is updated I will be adding more links on, just look for the "Weather Station" logo and click onto it and you will be taken straight to this new and very informative website. You can click onto the image here to the right to have a look at the website.