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The C&SRS became the North Staffordshire Railway Society (NSRS), Cheddleton station became Cheddleton Railway Centre, and the Churnet Valley Railway in effect began. The plans for the Oakamoor to Alton Towers track were put on hold, the old siding and goods yard at Cheddleton was purchased, and workshops were created with the first locomotives ...
It was purchased by the 44422 Locomotive Company in 1977 and taken to the Churnet Valley Railway, where it was eventually restored to working order in 1990. [152] Since then it has worked on many preserved lines, including the East Lancashire and Nene Valley railways.
After negotiation it became a stipulation of the bill that the dividend of the NSR could not exceed 5% until the Churnet Valley line was fully open. [3] With this concession granted the bill proceeded through Parliament and received royal assent on 26 June 1846 as the North Staffordshire Railway (Churnet Valley) Act 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. lxxxvi).
In 2005, the locomotive departed Ruddington and spent some time at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and then the Churnet Valley Railway, before departing to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway in 2012, having been purchased by several of the railway's volunteers. The locomotive remains operational and can still be seen hauling passenger trains.
Built in 1926. The carriage was purchased privately and moved to the Bluebell from the Churnet Valley Railway in late 2019. The carriage will enter the workshops once work on Car No. 54 is complete, [51] with a hope it will replace Christine once the latter becomes due for underframe overhaul in 2022. The carriage was formerly part of the ...
Churnet Valley Railway: Under restoration 48305 LMS Stanier Class 8F November 1985 Great Central Railway: Under overhaul 48431 LMS Stanier Class 8F May 1972 Keighley and Worth Valley Railway: Restored 48518 LMS Stanier Class 8F N/A Scrapped Boiler to 1014, other parts to 45551. Originally the only surviving Doncaster-built 8F: 48624 LMS Stanier ...
The local heritage railway, the Churnet Valley Railway (CVR), who already operate the line between Leek Brook and Kingsley and Froghall arranged access over the branch line with Moorland and City Railways and in 2011 started operating trains to Caldon Low exchange sidings. In 2014 MCR started the process to upgrade the track, as the condition ...
It was opened by the North Staffordshire Railway (NSR) in 1905 and closed to passenger use in 1935, [3] but remained open to freight traffic until 1964. [2] The station site today is used as a run-around loop for trains on the heritage Churnet Valley Railway with plans to reopen a station on the site. [4]