Minature Railway visible from train on the way into York?

[alexl92]

Hi,
When travelling into York from the south side (IE Colton Jct), there is what appears to be a small minature or narrow gauge railway visible on the left hand side, running for a short distance alongside the main line. Can anyone tell me what this is or who owns/operates it?

 

[Russel]

I noticed this in October and meant to ask this myself.

 

[Class15]

Hi,
When travelling into York from the south side (IE Colton Jct), there is what appears to be a small minature or narrow gauge railway visible on the left hand side, running for a short distance alongside the main line. Can anyone tell me what this is or who owns/operates it?

Have noticed this many, many times.

 

[AM9]

Looking at the map, it seems that there is a miniature railway running in the woods at the south-east corner of Hob Moor. It is about1.5Km before the southern end of Your station platforms.

 

[fgwrich]

I've noticed this a few times and looked into it a while ago - It belongs to the York City & District Society of Model Engineers:

York City & District Society of Model Engineering

Private model engineering club located in York.

www.yorkmodelengineers.co.uk

And their location of their railway is here:

York City and District Society of Model Engineers Ltd

https://maps.app.goo.gl/GTAzkssafMhVezgw8?g_st=ic

 

[alexl92]

Thank you!

 

[yorkie]

Is anyone here involved with this? I may see if I can organise a visit at some point

 

[Llanigraham]

The pin takes you to the entrance to their site.
If you go towards railway, where you can just see a red car, and then head north along the track next to the main line you then get to their site.

 

[snowball]

Network Rail's monthly updates on the recent electrification work between Colton and Church Fenton, often linked from the Transpennine electrification thread, made frequent references to the model railway as a location identifier.