A further attraction for visitors to Wirksworth is the Farmers and Artisans Market held on the first Saturday of each month, which is flourishing...
The EVR will be operationg for eight days over Easter, the four days of the Easter weekend and the following Thursday to Sunday. The trains will...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke Bringing old machinery back into use after long storage can lead to problems and after the half term holiday half of a very...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke Vacuum drip valves at last! Delivered by LMS at Loughborough and fitted to the locomotive as in the photograph. Various...
The railway may not be running, but we are very busy with the preparations for the half term trains. These will run to Shottle for nine days, from...
The Ecclesbourne Valley Railway will be running every day, 17th t0 25th February, steam haulage, 3 trains per day.
The Gofundme appeal has raised just over £11,000 in the first week, so many thanks to any members of this site who have contributed. We have had...
The appeal has now raised over £9,000, which is a very encouraging start. On Saturday we had a visit from the BBC, and the clip can be seen on the...
Here is a picture taken by Jack Enwright showing the current state at the top of the cutting; clay, water and retaining walls do not mix well....
As far as The Duke is concerned, I am open to offers from over the hill, which the EVR will handle on my behalf, subject to their own...
News from theEcclesbourne Valley Railway. As predicted the Santa specials broke the record set the previous year with an increase of about 30%...
The Winter Gala timetable has been added to the EVR website including detains od which locomotive will be working which train. As trains are not...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke The testing programme has been completed; the locomotive passed the final inspections and on 20th December made a...
[ATTACH] The Santa season is drawing to a close, it looks like it will be about 30% up on last year. The next event will be the Winter Steam gala...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke. The testing programme continues. The boiler had a warming fire in it in preparation for a hydraulic test on Thursday 14th...
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