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The Amberley Museum Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway based at Amberley Museum, Amberley, West Sussex. It has a varied collection of engines and rolling stock ranging from 18 in (457 mm) gauge to 5 ft 3 in (1,600 mm) gauge. It operates passenger trains at the museum using a mixture of steam, internal combustion and battery ...
The Amberley Museum Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway and railway exhibition hall devoted to British industrial narrow-gauge railways. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] There are 45 locomotives , with 5 being steam powered, 29 internal combustion and 4 battery electric, and around 80 items of rolling stock , chiefly goods wagons , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ...
It serves the village of Amberley, about half a mile away, and was opened by the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. The Amberley Working Museum – a museum of industry – is accessed from the former station goods yard. It is 54 miles 62 chains (88.2 km) down the line from London Bridge via Redhill on the Arun Valley Line.
The railway's second locomotive. Preserved in 1967 at the Brockham Railway Museum, and now in service at the Amberley Museum Railway. Brown Bear (constructed 2019) a new-build locomotive project started in 2013. Replica of Polar Bear (1905). Construction was completed in July 2019 at Old Hall Farm, Cumbria and shipped to the railway the same month.
The boiler was returned to Amberley in January 2012. Polar Bear was relaunched on 13 July 2013 by BBC newsreader and railway enthusiast Nicholas Owen. [1] Polar Bear made its fourth visit to the Groudle Glen Railway since it was preserved in late July 2016. After its two week stay there, it returned home to Amberley museum.
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn [8] 1891 542 0-4-0 ST: 2 ft (610 mm) Dinorwic Quarry: Cloister: Statfold Barn Railway: Donated by Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust; previously at Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre and Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum [9] 1891 554 0-4-0 ST: 1 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (597 mm)
Townsend Hook was the first loco to be based on the Bluebell Railway in the preservation era, arriving around a month before the famous LB&SCR A1 class loco Stepney. In 1962 the NGRS acquired a site in a former quarry at Brockham, Surrey, only a few miles from Betchworth, to build a museum dedicated to industrial and narrow gauge railways.
Sea Lion visited the Ffestiniog Railway in 1997, and made a visit to Amberley Museum in 2005 to celebrate Polar Bear's centenary. This visit was immediately followed by a return visit of Polar Bear back to the GGR. It was withdrawn from service following Christmas 2011 for her ten-year overhaul.