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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway Plc: Stations: 6: Length: 14 miles (23 km) Preserved gauge: 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge: Commercial history; Opened: 1906: Closed: 1976: Preservation history; 1981: Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway Plc formed and track re-laying began: 1984
The 6880 Society (registered charity, no: 1100537) was formed in 1998, with the sole purpose of constructing an operational Grange Class steam locomotive. [20] As the GWR rebuild programme stopped at the end of the first batch of 80 locomotives, assigning a putative name and number to the proposed locomotive was a relatively easy procedure.
After a narrow escape from the cutter's torch it was purchased for preservation and was transferred to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Until 1997 it had also spent some time at the southern section of the Great Central Railway, before moving to the heritage complex at Ruddington, where it works on shunting duties in the yard, and at ...
In May 2009, it was moved temporarily to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, and in July 2009, it was based at Tyseley Locomotive Works for use on some of the regular Shakespeare Express trains run by Vintage Trains during the summer. It returned to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway during their annual Wizard's Weekend event in 2010.
The Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway (TNGR) is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge railway running alongside the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway at Toddington.It was built in 1985 when the Dowty Railway Preservation Society needed a new home for its collection of narrow-gauge rolling stock.
Laverton Halt railway station was a halt on the Honeybourne Line from Honeybourne to Cheltenham which served the hamlet of Laverton in Gloucestershire between 1905 and 1960.. The line through the site of the now-demolished station, lifted after the route's full closure in 1976, has been relaid by the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, with the first service to the site running on 30 ...
Toddington railway station serves the village of Toddington in Gloucestershire, England. Since 1984 it has been the main base of operations for the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. The station is located on the Honeybourne Line which linked Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon and which was opened by the Great Western Railway in ...
The station opened as Broad Marston Halte on 17 October 1904 by the Great Western Railway. The spelling of the suffix 'halte' was later corrected to 'halt' [when?]. It initially had only one platform but a second one was added on 28 April 1907. The station closed on 14 July 1916, closing as a wartime economy measure but never opening again. [1] [2]