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The Weardale Railway is an independently owned British single-track branch line heritage railway between Bishop Auckland, Witton-le-Wear, Wolsingham, Frosterley and Stanhope. Weardale Railway began services on 23 May 2010, but decided to run special trains rather than a scheduled service for the 2013 season.
Locomotive 31106, formerly Spalding Town, is privately owned by Howard Johnston, and after a period of lease to Fragonset, FM Rail, and RVEL which included extensive main line running for 11 years, including working as far north as Oban in Scotland, is based at the Weardale Railway. After inspection, it was successfully started on 17 October ...
Built in 1954 by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn for the National Coal Board (NCB), specifically for working passenger trains on the NCB system at Ashington in Northumberland. It operated on the NNR in the 1970s, moving to the Colne Valley Railway and is now on the Weardale Railway. [75] 7845 Robert Stephenson & Hawthorne 0-6-0 side tank locomotive
Witton-le-Wear railway station is a railway station on the Weardale heritage railway serves the village of Witton-le-Wear in County Durham, North East England, and is the penultimate stop for most of line's eastbound passenger services (though one return service from Stanhope train per day currently terminates here rather than continuing to the eastern terminus at Bishop Auckland West). [1]
Stanhope is a railway station on the Weardale Railway, and serves the town of Stanhope in Weardale, England. The station is served by regular services on selected days throughout the year, mainly during weekends. The station is currently the terminus of the line as the section from here to Eastgate is out of use.
The remaining line was kept open by cement traffic and excursions until 1993, after which it was eventually taken over by the Weardale Railway. Passenger services recommenced briefly in 2004 but in 2005 the project went into administration. Trains began running again in 2006 under a new ownership structure.
RMS Locotec was founded in April 1992, initially operating second-hand 0-4-0 and Class 08 0-6-0 shunter locomotives. During 2008, it was purchased by British American Railway Services . Throughout much of the 2010s, RMS Locotec leased six Class 31 and six Class 56 locomotives to DCRail .
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon