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Author Archive: Kris Douglas

Amerton Locomotive to visit Belgium!

Amerton Railway is going INTERNATIONAL! What’s this you ask? Amerton Railway’s own Jennie is currently on her way to the far away rails of the Stoomcentrum Railway in Maldegen, Belgium. Over the 4th and 5th of May, Jennie will be…
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2ft Gauge Wagon Exhibition

The Exhibition is going to be developed over the next few months to display the interesting collection of small 2 foot gauge wagon chassis in the collection at Amerton. Initially these are being displayed behind the Poly tunnels so they…
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Wednesday 17th April Volunteers Progress

Our volunteers have been working incredibly hard to bring our new loop into action. As of today we have the point fitted, and enough track to bring the whole train out at once. We still need to finish the far…
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Wednesday 3rd April Headshunt Progress

This week we have moved the points to their final destinations, straightened, cleaned and oiled them. We had the use of a large Komatsu digger and a JCB to do the (yet again, very heavy) lifting. [nggallery id=3]

Peter’s Railway Treasure Hunt 2013

This year Amerton Railway are participating in ‘The Great Railway Treasure Hunt 2013’, a competition for under 14’s being organised by Peter’s Railway. The lucky winner will win £500 with 2nd place getting £250. There’s also an extra prize of…
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Wednesday Gang & The Rail Train

On Wednesday 27th March, our team of all-weather volunteers headed out into the snow. We were tasked with cleaning up the rail stock we had at Stump Siding and moving it to our official rail pile at Chartley Road loop….
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Headshunt Progress

The Saturday and Wednesday volunteer working gangs have been hard at it over the past few weeks. We are making an extension to the Headshunt which will provide us with an additional loop, the ability to run 4 trains and…
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New 2013 Leaflet

Hello, our new leaflet for the 2013 season is available for you to see! You can download it by clicking here.

Historic News Articles

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