Well we are part way through our Santa Specials season, the first weekend was delightful as always – we get such lovely visitors – you are a joy to welcome to our railway and thank you so much for supporting us! Santa returns to his grotto on Sunday 17th December and stays there until Saturday 23rd (we do let him out occasionally!). Our Christmas Pudding hunt was a great success, but we’d love to have some more entries before judging…
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…