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You can buy Anytime 1s and 1r from Smethwick Rolfe Street to Smethwick Galton Bridge... the 350s are not formally declassified when working the Walsall-Wolverhampton locals!
Belated recognition of the sponsorship of the Wensleydale Flyer by Acorn Stairlifts https://www.acornstairlifts.co.uk/blog/post/1180/News/Wensleydale-Flyer-flies-again-thanks-to-Acorn
Current timetable https://www.dalesbus.org/856.html
Apologies if this has been highlighted already... have just discovered this 1962 short film on the Yorkshire Film Archive site, made by Alan Sidi in 1962
http://www.yorkshirefilmarchive.com/film/8-oclock-special
Last Friday's edition carried a piece on the bus service and the campaign to crowd fund it (available through the BBC Radio 4 web site).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07z3cth
The target amount is almost reached...
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The Crowdfunding campaign has...
Brilliant article in The Guardian on the Wensleydale Flyer bus service and the crowdfunding scheme to keep it running...
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/oct/18/wensleydale-flyer-sunday-bus-closure-walking-holidays
80% of the funding has now been raised
Sunday and Bank Holiday Service 856 from Northallerton to Leyburn and Hawes - The Wensleydale Flyer http://www.dalesbus.org/856.html - is under threat yet again. Support for the Crowdfunding initiative (details attached) would be appreciated
The Wensleydale Diesel Gala is over the weekend of 17-19 July. The Wensleydale Diesel Traction Group are hoping that 56 098 may attend subject to it completing its overhaul for UK Rail Leasing.
Timetables for the three days available at http://www.wensleydalerail.com/diesel-gala-2015
A...
Sorry, the date for commissioning is not yet known
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When steam is running on the line, the engine is refilled at Finghall Lane on the journey to Redmire.
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A GBRf Class 66 is to be named in recognition of...
The Association was a limited company with no shareholders, focussed on providing volunteer support for the Railway plc. Of course, it was the founding organisation (in 1990) for creating the Wensleydale Railway out of the redundant Northallerton-Redmire BR mineral line and held a significant...
Following the AGMs on Saturday (6th June) the Wensleydale Railway Association has now merged with the Wensleydale Railway Trust to form Wensleydale Railway Association (Trust) Ltd - a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. Full details in the forthcoming Relay magazine.
Latest posting on the web site "The two steam locomotives that were to have been present at these celebrations are now, unfortunately, not available and there will be no others to replace them. On Saturday May 23rd we will be running our standard purple timetable and on Sunday May 24th and...
Alas, it looks as if the Q6 and Joem will not be on the Wensleydale Railway for the Association's 25th Anniversary weekend after all. More information to follow when known