The Midland Railway Butterley will this year be hosting the Railcar Association for its annual event and DMU Gala on Saturday September 21 and...
There are no Pacers on the Weardale Railway. The services are planned for Class 122 single car DMU and there are no plans to use any of the Class...
The Midland Railway Butterley will recommence running on July 19, initially on Saturdays and Sundays only and with DMUs. Steam may follow later in...
Well it is really - as the recent change of ownership was due to the parent company in Chicago going into administration which in turn led to the...
No Christmas trains at Weardale this year. The new coaches are for the summer catering trains (afternoon tea, etc) which are extremely popular.
It would have been pretty silly to do it and then to repeat the exercise over a five-week period for five years if it wasn't profitable!
Up to this year the Weardale Railway County Durham operated 11-coach trains at Christmas, on scheduled services, rather than as one-offs. To make...
Most locos, but not all, were modified with SSF which applies the brakes if 5mph is achieved and the DSD isn't pressed, irrespective of the...
You cannot run out from the WR platform towards what is called the 'connecting line' (and hence NR). There is a connection but it's the other way...
You are sort of right and sort of wrong - 1) BA to Stanhope is 16 miles, not 18 but it is 18 to the end of the line at Eastgate. 2) The railway...
From the Weardale Railway 'Regret to inform that due to the protracted process of transferring the railway to new owners it will not be possible...
Tom said Short answer is I suspect it is really complex, though frequently people seem to assert “7 miles” as an ideal length, but my hunch is...
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