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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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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Wednesday 24th April is now an important date for Golspie. At 2:36pm Lawrence Hodgkinson, the engineer currently working on Golspie turned the engine over and started it for the first time for over 20 years. There is still a lot…
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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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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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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]
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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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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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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Hello, our new leaflet for the 2013 season is available for you to see! You can download it by clicking here.