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Steampunk at the Midland Railway Butterley on May 17-18 with Jinty 16440 on a train of Victorian carriages and 80080 on BR Mk1s. Plenty going on at the Swanwick site for this event, with all entry via Butterley station and the train.

The Midland Railway Butterley will this year be hosting the Railcar Association for its annual event and DMU Gala on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22. A total of 21 DMU vehicles will be available for display or service including sets under restoration and those in long-term...

There are some pretty bizarre posts on here - especially the one with the photograph showing the one area of the site where derelict stock is concentrated. The poster could have shown other photos taken on the almost 50-acre site showing things such as the Static Power House (contains very large...

There are other less-obvious ways to be consistent, for instance the Midland Railway Butterley has a collection theme of ‘made in Derby’ so by that measure a Pacer operating alongside a Jinty is consistent.

Yes the Midland is the same as Middleton, or Crich, or Beamish, or even the Nene Valley etc where there is somewhere to pay as you enter their land (in Middleton's, the Nene Valley and MRC's case this is a railway ticket office). Locations that only offer a train ride such as the GCR or...

I wonder if I might just put a few things straight? Midland Railway Butterley is thankfully financially in the best state it has been for some years - and one of the reasons for this is that the opportunity for people to come on site without paying has been removed. Since the original museum...

The Voyager actually came in by road because at that time the line had not been reopened from Wolsingham to Network Rail at Bishop Auckland

That was in BR days when the Weardale line was still owned by BR and used for cement traffic. The line wasn’t fully opened in pres until 2010 and of course Northern was a later product of privatisation.

Weardale Railway has received mainline tours - last was a King’s Cross to Stanhope as has Midland Railway Butterley which had a thumper visit on a rail tour. MRB has non- passenger moves on and off Network Rail almost daily.

Class 108 DMU Good Friday to Easter Monday and then the Class 141 doing weekends from 23/24 April.

Midland Railway Butterley is closed until February half term, partly due to a re-evaluation of the profitability of opening on certain days but also because the New Year holiday is being used to relay part of the main line near the Butterley Carriage Sheds. It is rather unfortunate that the...

The Midland Railway Butterley has been running a preserved Pacer for the last 17 years! 141113 was in public service for four days last week and is a regular performer. 1635770924 141113 at Midland Railway is the only one left in traffic and has worked 18 days since the railway reopened in July.

There are 18 LMS Black Fives, 15 BR Standard 2-6-4 tanks, over 50 Class 117 DMU vehicles and something like 35 Class 37s preserved so multiples of any one type are not unusual in preservation. Pacer preservation will follow the pattern of first-gen, which currently shows around 50% of what has...

Ah yes, the Wickham. Ten years of our lives went into that, so thanks for the nice comments. It's actually now been in preservation service for 14 or so years! Better interior pictures http://llangollenrailcars.co.uk/56171.php http://llangollenrailcars.co.uk/50416.php

I'm surprised that no one has latched on the proposal to run a direct nightly Stanhope to London sleeper service, given that the coaches are already on site and being processed through the Wolsingham workshops. The idea is that people will visit The Auckland Project's attractions during the day...