Rolling Stock

Passenger Carriage, No. 1, built by Baguley in 1939,
Worked at: Wilson’s Pleasure Railway,
Orpington, Kent
Originally a toast-rack, modified to include a roof and sides. Fitted with flange lubrication system and electric air brake compressor.

Passenger Carriage, No. 2, built by Baguley in 1939,
Worked at: Wilson’s Pleasure Railway,
Orpington, Kent
Originally a toast-rack, modified to include a roof and sides, as well as a guard’s brake compartment.

Passenger Carriage, No. 3, built by Baguley in 1939,
Worked at: Wilson’s Pleasure Railway,
Orpington, Kent
Heavily rebuilt into a large balcony carriage, still under construction as of 2026.

Passenger Carriage, No. 5, built by the Welsh Highland Railway, Portmadoc,
based on the frames of Ammunition Wagons, from RAF Fauld.

Brake Van, No. 4, built from scratch by Amerton Railway members. Fitted with an axle driven air compressor. During december it is used for our Santa Specials trains as Santa’s Grotto, as it has a lovely warm coal-fired stove, clean catering facilties, and it’s own electric lighting system.

The railway owns 3 Ex-RAF Fauld Hudson Ammunition Wagons, there is also one privately owned one, which is unrestored. The three owned by Amerton Railway have recently undergone restoration and these can be now been found in our demonstration goods trains.

These wagons carry a rather sad history, on the morning of 27 November 1944, the secretive RAF Fauld underground munitions depot in Staffordshire became the site of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. Housed within a disused gypsum mine, the facility stored thousands of tonnes of high explosives for the war effort, ordnance that was moved through the tunnels using the very type of narrow-gauge ammunition wagons now preserved at Amerton Railway. Shortly after 11:00 am, an estimated 3,500 to 4,000 tonnes of bombs detonated, likely triggered by a spark when an armourer used the wrong tool to remove a live trigger. The catastrophic blast was heard as far away as London, sending a mushroom cloud thousands of feet into the air. It tragically claimed the lives of around 70 people, completely obliterating a nearby farm and plaster mill, and left behind the Hanbury Crater, a staggering chasm over 250 metres wide and 30 metres deep that remains permanently scarred into the Staffordshire landscape today. You can read more about the RAF Fauld explosion in this excellent article by the RAF Memorial Flight Club.

Our volunteers have restored a resplendent example fleet of RNAD Ammunition Box Vans and Flat Wagons. These are often parked in the headshunt as you leave Amerton Station, and almost always used during Gala Events. One stand-out example is a heavily modified RNAD chassis, which was beyond economical repair, that has been converted into a superb air-operated Ballast Hopper, we refer to this as the “Minnow” a play on the British Rail use of “Dogfish” and “Catfish” names for their ballast hopper wagons, this is also used in the RNAD set during galas. You may see railway volunteers riding on these wagons from time to time as they ride famously smoothly (which is to be expected considering they carried explosives!).