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The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a 22.75-mile (36.6 km) heritage railway line in Somerset, England.The freehold of the line and stations is owned by Somerset Council.The railway is leased to and operated by West Somerset Railway plc (WSR plc), which is supported and minority-owned by the West Somerset Railway Association (WSRA) charitable trust and the West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust ...
After initially being preserved on the West Somerset Railway from 13 September 1993, this shunting locomotive went to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway on 11 March 1998. [168] Class 25: D7523 1965 1996 - 2011 D7523 was based on the West Somerset Railway from 30 April 1996 until it moved to the Epping Ongar Railway in September 2011. [169] Class ...
An adjacent building on the platform is home to the Taunton Model Railway Group’s model railway layout. The original station offices with modern toilets are now used by the West Somerset Railway Association. [2] The eastern-side 1906-built platform, No.2, is today the station's main operating platform.
A tank engine takes on water through a water crane at the Bishops Lydeard station of the West Somerset Railway. Tourist train in transit on a viaduct of the Sassari–Tempio–Palau railway in Italy. A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or
The West Somerset Mineral Railway opened in 1857 to carry iron ore from the Brendon Hills to the harbour at Watchet, [40] and the West Somerset Railway connected it with the main railway network in 1862. [39] In 1858 the Somerset Central Railway opened as part of a project to link Wales with France by way of a jetty near Burnham-on-Sea railway ...
Williton railway station in Williton, Somerset, England, was opened by the West Somerset Railway in 1862 and closed by British Rail in 1971. It was reopened in 1976 as a heritage line . The locomotive workshops here are the headquarters of the Diesel and Electric Preservation Group (DEPG).
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