RAILWAY children are sharing their love of trains with passengers on one of the region’s tourism tracks.
The Weardale Railway Junior Club has built a working model railway which is on display at Stanhope Station, in County Durham.
The youngsters named their display Stanham- a combination of the village names Stanhope and Wolsingam between which the Weardale Railway runs.
Members of the club will operate the miniature line for passengers and visitors to the station’s waiting room on weekends, 10.30am to 4.30pm.
Daniel Brown, 12, said: "There are about 23 members and we’ve all done a little bit over the past eight weeks or so, parts were donated like track from National Express and we made the buildings ourselves.
"We and lots of the passengers like all things to do with trains and we’ll let children drive the trains round the model track when we can."
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