{"id":911,"date":"2026-08-02T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/?p=911"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T09:38:09","slug":"august-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/2026\/08\/02\/august-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"August opening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The school holidays are in full swing (and, for now, the sun is out&#8230;) so Sandiway Miniature Railway is open on Wednesdays as well as Sundays. We have steam out on a few occasions too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are open from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm on the following days&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday 2 August <\/strong>(with steam engine <em>Li&#8217;L Jo<\/em>)<br><strong>Wednesday 5 August<\/strong><br><strong>Sunday 9 August<\/strong>*<br><strong>Wednesday 12 August<\/strong><br><strong>Sunday 16 August <\/strong>(with steam engine <em>Lady Joan<\/em>)<br><strong>Wednesday 19 August<\/strong><br><strong>Sunday 23 August<\/strong><br><strong>Wednesday 26 August<\/strong><br><strong>Sunday 30 August<\/strong><br>Bank Holiday <strong>Monday 31 August<\/strong> (with steam engine <em>Lady Joan<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*On Saturday 8 August, the railway will be in use for a members&#8217; event that is not open to the public.  However, a few of the engines &#8211; including some steam &#8211; are likely to stay over for the public running on Sunday 9 August, so there may be an assortment of interesting locomotives heading trains that day &#8211; and for that you are welcome to join the fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We return to our normal Sunday opening in September.<\/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\/2026\/08\/260628-030-Lady-Joan-Sandiway-Miniature-Railway-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260628-030-Lady-Joan-Sandiway-Miniature-Railway-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260628-030-Lady-Joan-Sandiway-Miniature-Railway-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260628-030-Lady-Joan-Sandiway-Miniature-Railway-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260628-030-Lady-Joan-Sandiway-Miniature-Railway-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260628-030-Lady-Joan-Sandiway-Miniature-Railway-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/260628-030-Lady-Joan-Sandiway-Miniature-Railway-90x68.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Lady Joan<\/em> seen in action during June&#8217;s gala weekend at Sandiway.  This locomotive (and its friendly driver Alan) will be operating trains on Sunday 16 August and Bank Holiday Monday 31 August.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The school holidays are in full swing (and, for now, the sun is out&#8230;) so Sandiway Miniature Railway is open on Wednesdays as well as Sundays. We have steam out on a few occasions too. We are open from 12:00 noon to 4:00pm on the <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/2026\/08\/02\/august-opening\/\">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-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcsme.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}