Pecorama

Pecorama (or Pecorama Pleasure Gardens) is a tourist attraction on the hillside above the village of Beer, Devon, in southwest England. In November 2025; the owners Peco announced the site's closure for the 2026 season, citing falling revenues and lack of profits, despite a busy year in 2025.¹ It included a display of many model railways, gardens, a shop, and the Beer Heights Light Railway.²³

The attraction is owned and run by PECO, a UK-based manufacturer of model railway accessories. The factory is on the same site.

Pecorama is also home to "Teddy Mac and the Railway Bears", a series of children's books written by Margaret Edmonds.⁴

Beer Heights Light Railway

Steam locomotive 'Claudine' running round its train at the terminus.
Overview
Dates of operation	14 July 1975–November 2025
Technical
Track gauge	7+1⁄4 in (184 mm)

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Deepwater Station Wildway Down Beer Mine Quarry siding Much Natter Upsan Downs MPD Little Moore White Falls Halt Upsan Downs sidings
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The Beer Heights Light Railway was a 1 mile (1.6 km) minimum-gauge 7+1⁄4 in (184 mm) railway.⁸ Part of Pecorama, an exhibition owned by Peco,⁹ it closed in November 2025.

The official opening was by Rev. W.V. Awdry on 14 July 1975,¹⁰ at which time it offered a return ride from "Much Natter" station via a balloon loop. Subsequently, it was almost doubled in length by construction of the "Devil's Gorge" extension which involved a very considerable cutting and tunnel, and the complex track layout also includes a more recent steeply-graded branch line to "Wildway Down". The station at Deepwater was revamped in late 2014 and reopened in July 2015 as 'Deepwater Halt'. ¹¹

The line is notable for its high standard of presentation to the public and for the fine views obtainable from it.¹² It is home to eight live steam locomotives designed on narrow gauge principles.

It's temporary closure, for financial reasons, was announced in November 2025.¹³¹⁴

The railway had eight steam locomotives, two diesel and one electric.¹⁵ A locomotive called 'Finn MacCool' also visited every summer (usually July – September) from the Belfast and County Down Miniature Railway Society, Northern Ireland, to help out in the peak season.¹⁶ Other locomotives also visited during the 'Loco Week' and 'Bank Holiday Weekend Gala' in August. A list of locomotives is below:¹⁷

Number	Name	Wheel Arrangement	Notes	Power source	Arrived	Image
3	Dickie	0-4-2+T	Built by David Curwen, Wiltshire	Steam	1976
4	Thomas II	0-4-2ST+T	Thomas II (Original), Built by Roger Marsh	Steam	1979
5	Linda	2-4-0ST+T	Mainline Hunslet, rebuilt by TMA Engineering, Birmingham. Replica of Ffestiniog Loco.	Steam	1983
6	Jimmy	Bo-Bo	Built Severn Lamb, Stratford-On-Avon	diesel hydraulic	1986
7	Mr.P	2-4-2T+T	Built in Beer Works	Steam	1997
8	Gem	0-6-0+T	Romulus (heavily modified – Engerth tender arrangement)	Steam	1999
O&EBR 1	Otter	2-4-2+T	Built at Western Steam, Privately Owned	Steam	2004
9	Claudine	2-4-4T	Single Fairlie, Built at Beer Works	Steam	2005
10	Alfred	Bo-Bo	Tram style, Built at Beer Works	Battery Electric	2003
11	Ben	Bo-Bo	Freelance, Built at Beer Works	LPG / Petrol Mechanical	2015
12	Jools	0-4-2T	Heavily rebuilt from Samastipur.	Steam	2018