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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We are happy to announce the first running dates of the season at Amerton Railway. We will be running diesel trains every day between the 14th and 22nd of February. We look forward to seeing you there!
We are happy to announce that 2 members of Amerton Railway have acquired a new locomotive, F.C. Hibberd 2025 of 1937 for restoration at Amerton. The owners are currently working on the Lister CE twin cylinder engine while the frames…
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The now privately-owned Motor Rail Simplex has received a new Motor Rail style cab and a repaint, as the paint was almost 22 years old! The locomotive has received a lot of attention recently as it has been neglected for…
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The GDCSP Charity Event this year proved to be an amazing success, here are some photographs and a message from the organiser of the event. The 2013 Gambia Charity Event was one of the most successful charity weekends yet and…
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This years steam gala was already set out to be something really special! We can now confirm that it just got better, the owner of LNWR Heritage, founder of the Waterman Railway Heritage Trust and avid steam enthusiast Pete Waterman…
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