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South Marine Park Mini Steam Train, Dinosaurs & Arcades at Ocean Beach Pleasure Park, South Shields

Great family day out in South Shields riding the Lakeshore Railroad, Miniature Steam Train, seeing the Dinosaurs and playing in the Ocean Beach Pleasure Park arcade. Currently the only public, steam working 9 1/2 inch gauge railway in the UK, Lakeshore Railroad was first opened in 1972 and is still going strong to this day! Running for just under a third of a mile round the boating lake, the tracks meander through the trees and over the level crossings before arriving back at the station. A café' can also be enjoyed on site with what is quoted as "the best view seen from a café'" due to the large open viewing of the train running by. Open in excess of 200 days a year, do come and have a trip whether your young or just young at heart! The origins of the present railway date from the period 1968-71, when Jack Wakefield of Hetton-le-Hole, the well known traction engine owner, and Don Proudlock of Wingate, Co. Durham operated a portable miniature railway at traction engine rallies and country fairs using the locomotive 'Mountaineer' which they had acquired partially built from W.L.Jennings of Templecombe and had completed. #steamtrain #railway #steamengine