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Visiting for diesel gala.

92214 has been purchased by the David Clarke Railway Trust with the help of an anonymous donor. DCRT is the main supporting charity of the GCR.

Phil. Is the official announcement available somewhere?

Not particularly in the know but :sustrans offered the remaining part of the track and trackbed they own to the EVR for a nominal amount. However the DFT vetoed this as they felt the EVR did not have the financial resources to look after the bridges. These have either had virtually no...

As Flying Phil has indicated road or rail levels cannot be changed, potentially however as there is approx 300mm of excess ballast depth , combined with thin depth deck construction it should be possible that the 5.03m that highways would like can be achieved. All subject to survey etc.

Eden Valley Railway would love to get to Appleby, but although they have a TWO for the line,the alleged owners of the Trackbed , SUSTRANS, will only let them go a couple of miles from Warcop,the remainder of the line to Appleby is derelict and has had no maintenance since the last train ran.

On Thornbury’s Facebook blog it is said that restoration will only start in earnest after the 04 and Cromwell’s restoration are completed, she will be moved inside as soon as Cromwell is mobile.

The canal is officially closed till this Friday, so should be enough time to get every thing removed.

GCRofficial Utube channel. Would be nice if it was on the website though,come on GCR get your act together!!

Till 13 December. Web site is not very user friendly!

Even for the BBC that report is more than a bit wrong, suspect they have confused faulty beams with signals! As for Stadler trains in service uhhh, testing yes.

Heading to GCRN for the season

You sure? Houses in East Leake were built on the old goods yard, the track is insitu and in use on the east side of the formation. I suspect you are confusing East Leake with the old station site at Ruddington where the houses are very close to the formation. There is room if the GCR is ever...

Quite possible to redouble all of the route from north of MML to Ruddington, no obstructions at all. From an engineering point of view it would be very simple just need loads of track, ballast and signalling. Of course the minor matter of money will determine wether it ever happens!

The original plan was to go to the left and refurbish the existing shed, that does throw up a few problems. My understanding ( Flyingphil should be able to confirm) is that a new shed will be built upto the western boundary and the old shed removed.

Right hand side,ie the east side.

Just to add the cord was constructed in late 1973 and 1974

That shows what was left by BR after they had removed the majority to build the cord to connect to the MML. If memory serves me correctly BR wanted £50k to leave the embankment,at the time the GCR needed every penny to buy the existing track.

Not entirely sure that the people at Kirkby Stephen would recognise your description of them. Yes they are putting together a NER passenger train and a NER goods train, but they also have several LNER Gresleys and should be able to run a two coach LNER passenger train next year. Along with two...

Perhaps HaggisBotherer would like to enlighten us all!