In the boom years of seaside holidays no self-respecting seaside resort was without some sort of miniaturised transport, often in the form of a miniature railway. On the south coast Brighton had the wonderful Johnson’s miniature coaches, Eastbourne had its own, equally wonderful, 2ft gauge tramway which is at Seaton in Devon these days, and Hastings had not one but two miniature railways. Over the years many of these attractions have become eclipsed by more modern attractions and sadly a lot of miniature railways have been subject to mindless and costly attacks of vandalism, forcing many owners to call it a day.
Fortunately several of the older miniature railways have managed to stay the course and still manage to attract enough interest from the visiting public to remain viable operations.
One such railway is the Hastings Miniature Railway, which is situated on the seafront and runs between
