Discover the Lincolnshire
Wolds Railway Experience

  Cheap and cheerful day out. My 11 and 14 year old loved riding on the steam train and with added entertainment for the teddy bears picnic day made a fun... read more filled few hours out. Family train tickets can be used as many times as you want throughout the day and dogs are even allowed on the train too (have quieter carriages for nervous dogs or children). Staff were amazing and did a fab job. Toilets and even a dog friendly cafe available too. Would thoroughly recommend this 🙂

  Credit to and a big shout out to the volunteers who attended the witches and wizards event; friendly and welcoming staff.

Well done to Marc, always a natural... read more entertainer; you tried your very best to entertain the audience when so many cancelled at the last minute.

Thank you so much. My children very much enjoy your plate spinning and choices of music to entertain and dance to.

We always enjoy the train rides and park.

  We recently went here to the Halloween party. The steam train is lovely to ride on and really enjoyed it. However the cafe is not. We ordered bacon rolls and... read more was told they would be 40 minutes until they were ready, we had a coffee which was ok. it was instant coffee you make at home,no filter coffee there, and hot chocolate which was made with water and squirty cream on top with marshmallow's. The hot chocolate was awful and got thrown away. If they made it with milk it would be drinkable. So we went on the train and went back for the rolls later. The bread was soggy and the bacon was like shoe leather. Someone else said they had a sausage bap which was equally as bad. It's a shame as the place would be great with a decent cafe, food and drink etc. a shop that sold better souvenir's and a new coat of paint everywhere.Also the actor's did their best dressed up as Halloween ghost's etc I guess but wasn't very scary. It might also be worth mentioning that instead of doing the 'Time warp' dance for Halloween, Michael Jacksons Thriller would be better.

  Came the Sunday over Jubilee weekend. Weather was showers. But The Railway was open with the Diesel locomotive working. Despite the weather once again there is something to see ... read more Hagglers halt shop is a gold mine .all staff have time for everyone The guard Tony a brilliant bloke ..Olive in the booking office all go out of the way to welcome you .the line may be short .but they are progressing to break out towards Louth .keep an eye out on their Web site to running days with shows put on .Even it was raining yesterday the railway is fine .they will be having steam Locomotives back on the service soon . So the icing on the cake ....They have a good Member of staff who reminds me of Chamberlain returning from Munich waving his book of Raffle tickets .with a smile on his face Priceless

  From the second we arrived at the LWR what a truly wonderful experience from start to finish
We can't thank all of the LWR volunteers enough for making our visit... read more so enjoyable and to
see all of the excited children was an unbelievably happy experience
Thank you again to everyone who played their part in making our visit so enjoyable

  Not quite what I was expecting. Cars were parked in very muddy clogged grass making it difficult to get parked. It all seemed a little chaotic when we got there.... read more Santa saw the children for all of a minute as he handed out plastic bags with the kids presents in, which weren’t wrapped (not a big issue, but would have been nicer wrapped). The toys itself were age appropriate which was good. I thought we would be on the train for around an hour but it was 10 minutes up the road. Parked for 10 minutes whilst elves set up entertainment and 10 minutes back. The entertainment was ok, but wasn’t what I was expecting from the adverts. I think if this wasn’t here it the experience would have been awful. They did make it fun for 10 minutes. We had travelled nearly two hours each way (150 miles) to come to see Santa for 1 minute between three kids and the only interaction with him was to pass their present. They didn’t get to talk to him. There was the option to go and see him in the grotto after we got back to the station but the queue was long and the train was waiting to go again with the next lot so we didn’t wait.
It really didn’t add to things when a little boy in the seats in front hadn’t got a present as it had been forgotten as the grandparent was kicking off (I understand the frustration) but it really spoilt the atmosphere for other guests as she kept complaining. Then the elf singer asked for feedback on trip advisor which set her off again.
It was ok, but wasn’t what I expected and I think my children would have preferred somewhere where we could talk to father Xmas for 5 minutes. I appreciate its voluntary workers and I appreciate their time, just think it needs a few tweaks