Leeming Bar – Operation Clean Up

Leeming Bar – Operation Clean Up

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With the work on Leeming Bar station house now completed bot inside and out and the toilet block now finished and operational, the team have turned their hand to a general clean-up of the area around the station house. It has looked like a bit of a building site for...
Model Railway Exhibition

Model Railway Exhibition

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We are clearing out the shed at Leeming bar for the Early May Bank Holiday weekend to host our first Model Railway Exhibition. With Layouts from ‘n’ Gauge to ‘G’ Scale, and traders galore and live steam traction engine this is bound to be a...
Full Steam Ahead 2022

Full Steam Ahead 2022

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Would you like to see steam services return to Wensleydale Railway? We know that many of you miss the magic and beauty of steam! We do too, and we would love to run some steam services in the near future. However, there are a number of obstacles to making this dream a...
Hertford East Signal Box

Hertford East Signal Box

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There has been great progress with the Hertford East signal box relocation. Over the last few weeks, the box has been carefully dismantled and its wooden panels have been shipped to a work site where remedial work on some of the panels will be carried out before the...
A Signal Box for Leyburn

A Signal Box for Leyburn

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The Wensleydale Railway has been awarded a grant of £80,000 by The Railway Heritage Trust to relocate and restore the Grade II listed Hertford East signal box to Leyburn where it will control the recently installed passing loop. The box which is currently in the way...
AGM 2021

AGM 2021

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Both the Wensleydale Railway Association (Trust) and the Wensleydale Railway PLC will be holding their AGM on Saturday 2nd October at Chantry Hall, Bedale. This will be a hybrid event welcoming both face to face and online attendees. The Trust event will start at 11...