Bristol Harbour Railway - Updates and Goings on

The rail-mounted Coles crane can pick up one end at a time and pivot it around onto the track Makes it a lot easier,

Three blog post updates:

Docks Heritage Weekend 2025

Have-A-Go Week, 29’s Overhaul, A New Pontoon and a Spot of Gardening

We’re Going Back Up The Branch! (I)
A small but meaningful step in the right direction as we lay a track panel at the far end of the line.

 

Progress update on the rebuilding of the branch.

We're Going Back up the Branch! (II)

 

Hope that Fox, Walker loco will get the TLC she needs, being so rare !

 

Progress being made in returning the Harbour Railway to Butterfly Junction (is it still called that?) - pics taken on my walk to work this morning.

 

Looking really good and swift progress!

 

The same location 30 years ago this month.
1996-02-18 BRISTOL HARBOUR RAILWAY PECKETT 0-6-0ST 1940/37 HENBURY by KING COBRA 92, on Flickr

 

Lovely stuff Ian, some great photos there in your Flickr album. That photo below looks remarkably similar today, but your pics of the line South of the Ashton Avenue bridge make me very nostalgic for life before it was converted to a busway. There can't be many preserved railways that have been nibbled away as much as the BHR, but I guess that's the price you pay for running a heritage railway in a city centre.

 

Thanks. I both ran and participated in a number of photo charters over the years and the range of motive power was remarkable. Dave Martin was a dab hand at getting visiting locos. Lots more photos to upload.

 

Splendid Progress !

Congratulations

 

Running dates for the year have been announced: https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/m-shed/train-rides/

Upcoming dates for 2026

• Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 March
• Saturday 4 to Monday 6 April
• Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April
• Saturday 2 to Monday 4 May
• Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 May
• Saturday 23 to Monday 25 May
• Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June
• Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 June
• Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 July
• Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 July
• Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 August
• Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 August
• Saturday 29 to Monday 31 August
• Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September
• Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September
• Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 October
• Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 October
• Saturday 31 and Sunday 1 November

They are also running their popular steam locomotive and crane driving experiences, in the second week of June. And I just so happen to be working in Bristol that week... So I've treated myself. Not been behind the regulator for a few years, and £80 isn't bad going for twenty mins on a steam locomotive and twenty mins driving a crane.