East Herts Miniature Railway — Attraction in East Hertfordshire

On a trip back home we decided to make a detour... the East Herts Miniature Railway is located in the rather large Van Hage Garden Centre. It takes a bit of navigating to get through the garden centre out to where the railway is! There is a little ticket office where you can buy tickets (card thankfully accepted!)

The railway itself has been set up really nicely, a trip through a tunnel and a ride over a pond included! The volunteers were great and friendly with the kids, and the steam train did a great job getting us round the track! It was raining on our visit so we got a little wet, but the station area where you get on etc. was nice and dry.

A really great miniature railway, and for the kids (and me!) it made the visit to a garden...

Wonderful miniature railway - run by excellent volunteers. We've been many times and it's lovely at all times of the year. It's very inexpensive (it's recently increased from £1 for 2 laps of the circuit to £1.50), and the driver experience is particularly good value (at just £5). We love looking out for the various things in the garden (little Shrek being our favourite) and they sometimes feed the fish as you go over the bridge. The Christmas lights this year are beautiful (as they were last year). It's a lovely experience on the steam train, but the electric train driven by Chucky...

Located within the Van Hage garden centre this miniature railway offers children and grown-ups a fun experience away from the main shopping areas. For the £1.00 per head entrance fee you get to ride on either a steam locomotive or diesel train. Two loops of the layout take you around a small park populated by ornamental forest animals. For tall passengers there is a tunnel to negotiate on the first lap so remember to duck! Manned by a team of enthusiastic volunteers everything runs like clockwork. Highly...