The acclaimed Amerton Railway Summer Steam Gala will take place on Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st June 2015. In steam this year Amerton resident locos W G Bagnall “Isabel” and Hunslet “Jennie” will be joined by Kerr Stuart “Peter Pan”…
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We are looking to try something different for the AGM arrangements this year. The AGM will be held at Amerton on the evening of Saturday 11th July 2015, this is the first day of the “Gambia Weekend” with both “Isabel”…
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After the Cream gloss topcoat was applied to the front and end walls of the Ticket Office on Wednesday, Friday 24th April saw the external repainting substantially completed when the dark red “Monarch” was applied and the rear wall painted….
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Tuesday 21st April saw another day of sunny and warm spring weather at Amerton, which really helped the Ticket Office external painting along. By the end of the afternoon the whole building had received the undercoats for the cream colour…
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On Monday 20th April a team of Amerton Railway members started on the external repair and redecoration of our wooden Ticket Office. The woodwork has been washed and rubbed down, filled and primed where necessary and some new sealing strips…
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In March Mr Bob Watson came to Amerton to see “Golspie”, Bob drove Golspie’s cousin “Altonia” at Alton Towers when Golspie was in store there. Altonia is now running at the Old Kiln Light Railway in Surrey and Bob has…
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On Saturday 21st March we were pleased to have a visit from Mr Bob Watson, who came to see Golspie, our Baguley steam outline diesel locomotive built for the Trentham Gardens railway and later at Alton Towers (although not in…
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Our Weekend Services start again on Saturday 21st March, the railway will then be open every weekend until 1st November, as well as during the school holidays. We will be running diesel trains on Saturday 21st & Sunday 22nd March…
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Our newly built ballast wagon – the “Minnow” – arrived at the Railway on 21st July 2014. Since then we have done various minor finishing jobs, tested the wagon, written operating instruction manuals and trained the authorised operators. The wagon…
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