The weekend has seen some unusual goings-on for this time of year. The replica WW1 trench has hosted a film crew from the University for the Creative Arts. Some of the people working on the railway thought they were pretty hardened to the weather - but this lot camped overnight through the first snow of the Winter. Now, that is quite impressive (or mad, delete as you see fit). They also brought some quite impressive pyros and a real Armourer, another first for the site.
In closely related news, the dates for the Driver Experience for 2016 have been released - have a wander over to here for the list. Just the ticket as a Christmas present with a difference. No discounts for Black Friday, but we won't mandate camping on site the night before.
The Trust's aim is to build a museum and a railway to display its collection of industrial narrow gauge equipment that has been gathered from various industries around the UK in the last 30 years, and in doing so we aim to educate and entertain both the general public and the railway enthusiast.
The Industrial Narrow Gauge Railway is an unusual aspect of British Industrial Heritage that is now almost extinct. These small, self-contained railway systems were often hidden away from the general public and served such diverse industries as brickmaking, sewage works, munitions factories, mines, civil engineering and many more.