Founded in the early 1970s as a heritage Wey Valley Light Railway, it was first located around a disused pumping station in Farnham.

In 1982 the land was sold for housing and the track and equipment were moved to the Old Kiln Museum, now known as the Rural Life Centre.

The line has since lengthened around the centre and a small stretch of track serves the museum's heritage timber yard demonstration area.

Reeds Road was built in 2003 to replace a sleeper-built platform,[2] is the south-western terminus, has a passenger waiting room, a run-round loop and a siding for storing rolling stock.Old Kiln Halt is where the locomotive works and carriage sheds are located, along with further storage sidings.

It has a waiting room partly built from the body of an old Portsdown and Horndean Light Railway passenger tram, a run-round loop and a branch connection to the woodyard.