• Our booking engine at tickets.railforums.co.uk (powered by TrainSplit) helps support the running of the forum with every ticket purchase! Find out more and ask any questions/give us feedback in this thread!

Eden Valley Railway - Warcop

Status
Not open for further replies.
Sponsor Post - registered members do not see these adverts; click here to register, or click here to log in
R

RailUK Forums

madannie77

Member
Joined
12 May 2009
Messages
404
Location
The Station Garden of Eden
2311 will require a lot of work to make it usable for passengers as it has not been used at all for many years. 2315 is currently receiving attention as it has been used more recently, but it also needs plenty of work to get it into the sort of condition we would really like. We have a lot of the materials necessary, but as usual on small railways such as the Eden Valley Railway it is manpower which is the limiting factor.
 

NeilNX

Member
Joined
21 Jul 2018
Messages
21
A remote line but watching the video there quietly beavering away. While the railway best of luck to them.
Do they have a intial target destination which is a main priority
 

mpthomson

Member
Joined
18 Feb 2016
Messages
948
Also just about an hour away from Lancaster & Durham. Not really many "proper" heritage lines around it at all. Lakeside & Haverthwaite and Ravenglass are more "touristy" gimmicks rather than heritage lines. Then further South from around Lancaster, you have East Lancs at Bury, but that's an hour South and well established. Warcop is certainly on my list for volunteering at when I go into semi retirement in a couple of years and I live in Lancaster as it's just about within travel distance and I like the idea of being part of a line that's being brought back to life.

By 'touristy gimmicks' do you mean 'financially viable and successful'? As that's what they are and they are two of the best examples of how to do it successfully.
 

STEVIEBOY1

Established Member
Joined
31 Jul 2010
Messages
4,003
I visited this line too last weekend, it was good and the people there were great.
 

underbank

Established Member
Joined
26 Jan 2013
Messages
1,486
Location
North West England
By 'touristy gimmicks' do you mean 'financially viable and successful'? As that's what they are and they are two of the best examples of how to do it successfully.

We were discussing volunteers living within an hour. The "professional" business lines aimed at tourists are generally of less interest for volunteers.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Top