Today we’re pleased to launch the new Helston Railway website! With a fresh new design, that’s mobile friendly (responsive – for the techy people out there), this means it will now work much better on your smart phone or tablet without you having to pinch and zoom like before. The new site is easier to navigate and we’ve taken the opportunity to make it even easier to find the information you need. Quickly get directions or find out our opening…
Well there’s a statement of the obvious! And in our busy volunteer lives nothing galvanises us like getting ready for our Santa Specials. So following our tried and trusted method Santa will once more stable his reindeer locally and will move in with us for 9 days this year in the run up to Christmas. We will be polishing the elves as usual and giving Santa a wash and brush up, building grottos and generally getting ourselves ready. So we are…
Our apologies for the silence over the last few months – its not that we haven’t been very busy, we have – so we will now try and bring you up to date with what we have been doing. As this is going to be a catch up exercise its probably best if we do it by themes. So this one will be about Truthall Halt – hope you enjoy it. Truthall Halt was opened to the public in July 1905…
Its always lovely to be able to say thank you to everyone who comes to visit us – and especially at this time of year where we are beginning a new season and are open to the public again. We have just had the most marvelous Easter and if you were one of our visitors – thank you so much for taking the time to come and see us and make it our most successful Easter opening ever. All the…
A new milestone was reached yesterday when our first train of the season was able to stop at our new Truthall Halt and passengers were able to disembark. This is the first time in 54 years that trains have been able to stop here since the closure to passengers in 1962. We still have to finish the platform surface and replace the ironwork that was present when the Halt was open – but in the meantime we have a new…
And we open again to visitors on Thursday 16th March. William Murdoch, our cherished steam locomotive, is still undergoing boiler work so we will be opening with our trusty diesel locomotives and brake van as in previous years. And again as usual we will be open on Thursdays and Sundays. For the Easter weekend we will be open on Friday, Sunday and Monday and with Easter Eggs for our younger visitors and an Easter Egg trail. So what has been happening…
Wishing you all a Happy New Year and to share with you the results of our Annual Draw. Santa took some time out from his arduous time over our Santa Specials to draw the tickets for us – and we would like to thank him for taking the time. Thanks also to everyone who bought a ticket or two – we raised over £5000 pounds to support our railway. And to those organisations and individuals who donated prizes. Especially Great…