Heritage Railways
Recently I have been planning a trip with a mate to a heritage railway. He loves steam, I like it. He likes travelling and I love ticking off another line. I thought there isn't really one place that has the info about them I want in one place so I thought why not create one. This page will be for the standard gauge railways. Maybe in the future I will expand to Museums, miniture and narrow gauge ones as well.
Being an old railwayman (BR through and through) I have decided that rather than do it alphabetically I would split it in to the old BR Regions. Eastern, London Midland, Southern and Western. I used my old Miles and Chains books to define the areas.
Also if I have visited the line in question I will write a review of my trip there on a separate page and link in the heritage railway's info.
Resources:
Eastern
Heritage Railways Line information
Boundaries as per the
Miles and Chains 1: Eastern 3rd Edition. Geoffery Hurst 1985 (IBSN 0-947796-02-9)
East Anglia in full, Carlisle (From Newcastle), Skipton, Hebden Bridge, Huddersfield (from Leeds/Barnsley), Berwick upon Tweed, Leicester (from Peterborough), Nottingham (from Grantham & Lincoln), Sheffield (from Leeds).
London Midland
Heritage Railways Line information
Boundaries as per the
Miles and Chains 2: London Midland 3rd Edition. Geoffery Hurst 1985 (IBSN 0-947796-06-1)
Carlisle, Skipton (to Carlisle), Holyhead, Hebden Bridge, Sheffield/Chesterfield (from Manchester), Craven Arms, Aberystwyth, Pwellheli, Wrexham, Cheltenham, Stratford Upon Avon, Oxford (from Bletachley), Worcester, Chesterfield (From London), Nottingham (From London), All Chiltern lines,
Scotland
Heritage Railways Line information
Boundaries as per the
Miles and Chains 3: Scottish 2nd Edition. Geoffery Hurst 1984 (IBSN 0-9507577-8-0)
Carlisle, Berwick upon Tweed and all points north thereof.
Southern
Heritage Railways Line information
Boundaries as per the
Miles and Chains 5: Southern 2nd Edition. Geoffery Hurst 1984 (IBSN 0-947796-08-8)
Reading (From London Waterlook), Kensington Olympia, Waymouth (From Waterloo), Yeovil Junction (From Waterloo) and all points Southeast thereof.
Western
Heritage Railways Line information
Boundaries as per the
Miles and Chains 4: Western 2nd Edition. Geoffery Hurst 1984 (IBSN 0-947796-02-9)
Craven Arms (South thereof), Fishguard Harbour, Banbury (From Paddington), Worcester (From Paddington), Yeovil Junction (West thereof), Dorchester (North thereof), Penzanze, Salisbury (From Westbury),
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