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Mardyke Miniature Railways Ltd is a long established English company, producing garden and commercial railway equipment.
Our products speak for themselves in their innovation, build quality and reliability, they continue to offer unmatched performance, durability and value. We have produced many different Locomotives over the years and most are still operating today, still giving good service and much pleasure.

We continue to produce diesel/hydraulic and petrol/hydrostatic locomotives in various body and bogie configurations and these are all made to the highest, exacting standards.
We have tried to give as much information within this site as possible but if you have a question that is not covered here, please feel free to contact us.

Brief Company History

About 40 years ago the founder of Mardyke Miniature Railways, Des De Smedt decided to use his extensive training and experience in engineering to further his enthusiasm for trains by building his own garden railway. He chose 7.25" gauge and constructed rail from flat bar, the first locomotive he ever built was a Self Propelled Wagon which was driven by pushing and pulling an alternating handle to move either forwards or backwards, soon after he built 2 DMU's powered by 2 stroke engines through mechanical gearboxes and after using these to develop different power and drive systems he developed a 4 stroke Petrol/Hydrostatic Drive system and then designed the more powerful Diesel/Hydraulic drive system.

First ever Mardyke locomotive

In 1975 Des De Smedt was joined by his son Richard who after learning his trade within the fabrication and machine shops, was able take over the design and building of Mardyke Locomotives and Carriages when Des De Smedt decided to work part time in1990   

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Telephone

01708 554618

FAX

01708 553395

Postal address

Unit 3 Deans Factory Estate,

Lambs Lane

Rainham

Essex

England, RM13 9XL

Electronic mail

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