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Saffron Walden & District Society of Model Engineers



Special events for 2018


AER events

2018 season

The Railway opens for the 2018 season on the last Saturday in March

Several special events are planned during the season, see the AER web site for more details.

Halloween Specials will be running during the last week of October. These trains are very popular with the visitors, many of whom come in Halloween costumes.

Christmas Specials with trains to Santa’s Grotto start running on the last week-end in November. See the AER web site for the full timetable

The AER runs every week-end from the end of March until the end of October and week-days during school holidays.



Sunday 1st January

New Year’s Day Steam-up

Sunday 18th March

2018 AGM and Steam Up

Saturday 24th March

‘Clearing the cobwebs’, our first running day of 2018 season.

Saturday 16th / Sunday 17th June ‘Father’s Day week-end’

Saturday 14th July

‘Maxitrak Day’ several Club members have Maxitrak locos so we are inviting members of the Maxitrak Owner’s Club to join us

Saturday 1st September

Steam Day and BBQ

Steam Event with invitation for visiting steam locos

Sunday 14th October

‘Anything Goes’ - Last running day of 2018 season before the Halloween and Christmas Specials


We endeavour to have Club members on site every Saturday and Sunday from Easter through to October to give rides for the public.We are also run whenever possible during the weekdays of the school holidays when AER are running.

We also run our trains, when weather permits, to support the AER Halloween and Christmas Specials - this is very popular with our visitors.