The Gainsborough Model Railway has announced its open days for this year:
- Saturday 8th / Sunday 9th April
- Saturday 17th June
- Sunday 23rd July
- Saturday 26th / Sunday 27th August
- Sunday 1st October
- Sunday 3rd December
- Friday 29th / Saturday 30th December
Opening times on all dates is 1.30pm to 5.30pm, with last admission at 4.30pm.
Admission costs adults £5.00, senior citizens and children £4.00, family (two adults and two children) £12.00.
It is a large 0-Gauge model railway based on the East Coast Main Line from London Kings Cross to Leeds Central in the days of steam, with such locos as Flying Scotsman and Mallard. It is run to a timetable with bells and signals just like the real railway and it fills the society’s club rooms in the Old Victorian School in Florence Terrace near the South end of Tesco car park.