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Tag Archives: Winter Maintenance

December 2018

4th January 2019
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: Santa Specials, Volunteers, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

December Sundays were given over to our Father Christmas Specials. These involved a wintry ride to the South Pole and from there a return to Brogdale Central and then a slow train to the North Pole passing by […]

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January 2018

31st January 2018
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: Class 20, Class 31, P-Way, Permanent Way, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

The Railway is now closed for winter maintenance and should be re-opening first Sunday in March- subject to the weather. It seems likely our 2018 15 minute ride will probably remain fixed at a flat rate £1.50, with […]

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December 2017

1st January 2018
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: Santa Specials, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

December saw the Railway visited by Santa who kindly stayed on to do the honours for three Sundays in a row. Although festive snow turned to drizzle, showers and proper rain Santa sat comfortably in his heated grotto […]

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January 2017

31st January 2017
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: Carriage Shed, Concrete Sleepers, Engine Shed, General Maintenance, Maintenance, Sleepers, Tea Hut, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

Suddenly its 2017 and maintenance time for the Railway. During January our Maintenance Team started work on refitting points and sleepers in the station. This project involves disconnecting the various rodding and cables extracting sleepers and then slipping […]

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December 2016

1st January 2017
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: P-Way, Railway Society, Santa Specials, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

December was Santa month. Thanks to his influence it didn’t rain (or snow) on the three Sundays we were running our Santa Specials. Which was nice.  As usual everyone seems to have enjoyed themselves. What was noticeable was […]

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November 2016

11th December 2016
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: Santa Specials, School Parties, Weddings, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

November was something of a low key month. With the change in the weather and the shorter days railway traffic eased off. Even though our Sundays have been usually cold and overcast passengers seem to have enjoyed themselves […]

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March 2014

3rd April 2014
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: Articulated Carriage, Miniature Railway Magazine, Mogul, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

After a couple of month’s break we re-opened this month and were pleasantly surprised to find that we almost had full trains from the first train we ran. We have become a definite Brogdale fixture for tourist and […]

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February 2014

7th March 2014
Categories: Monthly Digest Tags: IT Team, Winter Maintenance Posted by The Porter

Although the Railway is taking a break from public running there’s still quite a lot going on. For one thing Santa and his elves have had to recover from their Christmas specials. From feedback these went down well […]

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Lovely place to visit. Lots of fun. We have enjoyed visiting and riding on the train many times over the years my eldist is now 10 and my youngest 15 months and shall be bringing him again soon for a ride.

Kathy West

Lovely little railway going through orchards. Interesting engines, friendly helpful staff. Would recommend. Also do Santa Specials in December.

Theresa Bass

Very different miniature railway. Very nice set up, nice section of locomotives, and very freindly staff.

Adam Jeffrey

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