{"id":836,"date":"2025-12-09T10:09:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/?p=836"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:59:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:59:50","slug":"making-tracks-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/2025\/12\/09\/making-tracks-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Tracks 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pete Waterman&#8217;s latest model railway comes to Blakemere Village on Saturday 13 December, staying for the Christmas and New Year period. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/makingtracks.uk\/\">www.makingtracks.uk<\/a> for bookings and more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250829_1528130-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-837\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250829_1528130-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250829_1528130-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250829_1528130-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250829_1528130-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250829_1528130-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250829_1528130-90x68.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Just part of the latest Making Tracks layout, seen at Chester Cathedral in August<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandiway Miniature Railway will open on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 December, and again on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December, while Making Tracks is operating. Why not combine a visit to both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Steam at Sandiway this Christmas holiday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We expect to have steam in operation on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Saturday 20 December <em>Lady Joan<\/em><\/strong><br><strong>Sunday 21 December <em>Gloin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See our <em>Members&#8217; Locomotives<\/em> page for more about each of these locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During normal school holidays, we open on Wednesdays; however, these being Christmas Eve and New Year&#8217;s Eve respectively in 2025, we will not be open to the public on those days this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Waterman&#8217;s latest model railway comes to Blakemere Village on Saturday 13 December, staying for the Christmas and New Year period. Visit www.makingtracks.uk for bookings and more information. Sandiway Miniature Railway will open on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 December, and again on Saturday 20 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/2025\/12\/09\/making-tracks-2025\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}