Sadly, we have made a decision not to run our Santa Specials this Christmas. We have seen the multitude of reports in the press that appear to be saying that there is a likelihood of the COVID situation worsening, and feel that we just cannot take the financial risk of setting up the events, and then needing to reduce the number of tickets at the last moment, or even cancelling completely. As you will know, these events do cost us…
Well we have loved welcoming you all back to our railway and seeing some of you at our Heritage Transport Weekend. But as we are now moving into the final month of this year’s season we are going to change our operational days to better suit our local community. So from October we will be running trains on Thursdays and Sundays, plus on our last week in October we will open on Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday. We will then close…
So sorry but we have had a driver call in sick, so we aren’t able to offer train rides on the 4th August. We will be open on Thursday 5th and and extra day on Sunday 8th August. We hope to see some of you then!
So sorry but we are going to have to delay our reopening which was planned for Wednesday 21st July. Sadly, and despite our real achievements over the past months, we need take just a little bit more time, due mainly to the delayed relaxation of COVID requirements, to complete our stringent volunteer familiarisation and assessment procedures, and finish the last few items of our construction projects in the car park area. Of course, we are still able to welcome visitors…
We are still planning to open for train rides from the 21st July, but in the meantime our refreshed shop and buffet are going to be open sooner. Our opening schedule is Sunday 4th July. Buffet open from 10 am to 4 pm serving drinks, cakes and snacks Wednesday 7th July and Thursday 8th July. Shop and buffet open from 10am to 4pm. Again the buffet will be serving drinks, cakes and snacks Sunday 11th July. Shop and Buffet open from…
As we know running a small railway with a volunteer force is a source of joy and happiness, but it also sometimes takes a bit longer to do things than we expect! We are always ambitious. Anyway our plan to reopen train rides for our visitors on the 7th July is not going to be possible, but we are planning on doing so on the 21st July. It is certain that we will be reopening the revamped shop and buffet…
Welcome back to the railway. Whilst we have been quiet on this page, we have been working our socks off to get our projects completed and getting ready to open again this year. During the lockdowns we were able to continue to work on improving our railway whilst making sure that our volunteers were kept safe. So what are the plans? Well we are planning to reopen again on the 7th July 2021, initially running on Wednesdays and Thursdays. We…
We guess you are wondering what we have been doing over the past few months. Well the good news is that whilst we haven’t been in a position to reopen to the public, we have been able to continue to work at the site; and even in this latest lockdown the rules permit us to continue volunteering and getting the railway ready to reopen in 2021. One great thing that happened recently was the awarding of a grant of £76,100 from…
It is with great regret that we have decided not to open to the public for the remainder of this year. It is a decision that we have taken with heavy hearts. In reality as we are a volunteer railway with no paid staff, and most of our customer facing volunteers are of mature years we do not want to put them at any additional risk, nor do we feel we can provide the quality experience our customers expect. So,…
We have reluctantly decided that we will not be able to open for the remainder of this summer; and will definitely be closed to the public until the end of September. The main reason for this is the safety of our volunteers who work in our customer facing roles. They are mostly in the vulnerable age group. We will keep you informed on our website and facebook pages of any developments. In the meantime our volunteers have begun to return…