Well here we are with another running weekend, and at the moment wall to wall sunshine. Hopefully a good weekend for the railway, all tourist attractions are affected by lower numbers. This is due to a number of things. All we can do is to continue to present the railway at its best and give …
Category: Along the line
July visitors
No doubt many of you will have seen that we have both Tornado and a Deltic visiting the railway in July. This is excellent news, both will be running together and drive experience days will be available. But take your time to look at other events available throughout the year. There seems to be something …
Happy New Year.
Well here we are with a shiny new year stretched out in front of us, ready for volunteers, services and visitors. It’s anybody guess as to what 2026 will be like and the challenges we will face and the rewards we will have. So onwards and upwards withe the first public services being the winter …
It starts today.
Well today sees the start of the Santa services. An extremely important and busy time for the railway. I always liked the Santa services, passengers seemed in a better mood and plenty of volunteers to run things as well. I always tried to open Orton Mere on Santa days if the weather was nice. Although …
Well that was August.
Well that’s August out of the way. A busy month with lots of activity around the railway. It’s months like this when we can forget the activity that goes on behind the scenes. In the sheds and along the line doing work that enables the railway to run safely. Mention must also be made of …
Travelling Post Office
This weekend sees the return of the travelling post office. In the past this has always been very popular with visitors. On both Saturday and Sunday it’s doing two runs to the equipment at Sutton Cross to give demonstrations of mail exchanges. Let’s hope it will be a regular occurrence. At one stage it did …
A bit of a gap.
The keen ones amongst you will have noticed there has been a bit off a gap since the last post, this has been due to a number of circumstances, Despite this the railway has continued to chug along quite happily! I think it’s fair to say that the railway has been busy with a number …