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  1. William Coleman
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Should anyone wish to visit we are open as part of the heritage open weekends in September. There will be two Schoma's running, While we have our...
    Post by: William Coleman, Sep 2, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Safe and sound at its new home. The Schoma's don't look so big now.. [IMG] [IMG]
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 13, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    After seeing Fintown Railway previously using Belgium trams for coaches (One now purchased by Southwold) I looked in to the idea, then found out...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 9, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    I've been meaning to post a update as to what we've been up to but yes the Lisbon Tram Car No.711 will become our passenger carrying vehicle, it...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 3, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
  6. William Coleman
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    Southend Pier Railway

    Yes sorry when I said we I did mean the Crowle Peatland Railway
    Post by: William Coleman, Jan 19, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Southend Pier Railway

    We asked Southend Council about what will become of the current locos when the news was announced about the current trains being replaced and the...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jan 15, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    If anyone happens to know of any 3’ or 900mm gauge wheelsets could you please let me know.. I was daft enough to take on the job of finding 3’...
    Post by: William Coleman, Dec 27, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Bit slow with the updates I know.. The open weekends was great, we are looking to do the same next year, possibly May - October, with a possible...
    Post by: William Coleman, Nov 24, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    The Thomas Buck has been progressing very quickly recently now and isn’t far from being completed. Hopefully 2 of the Schömas will be outside...
    Post by: William Coleman, Aug 3, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    More track down.. Just needs screwing in and we can run locos on it. We are looking for a point leaver as well, if anyone knows of any going for a...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 22, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
  12. William Coleman
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Our site is on Crowle Moors which is a peat bog, its a SSSI site in fact, we've only got 1 peat tub wagon, and to my knowledge the only surviving...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 14, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Schömas 5130 & 5129 was put on to some rails today, 5129 currently is a non runner so it was up to 5220 “The Thomas Buck to tow both locos on to...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 8, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Yep all 3 locos and 3 tandems! And 5/6/2019.. some more photos from the day. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 7, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Another one! 5130 has joined the fleet! Currently a non runner.. [IMG] [IMG]
    Post by: William Coleman, Jun 6, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Safe to say we’ve been busy! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
    Post by: William Coleman, May 20, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Both Schomas have started to receive some undercoat! We have also been kindly donated what I believe to be the last surviving peat tub wagon! It...
    Post by: William Coleman, Mar 1, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    After some further adjustments to the engine we ran the engine on 5220 "The Thomas Buck" in for a good hour today. As you can see we have made a...
    Post by: William Coleman, Feb 6, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    That is good idea, only thing we would need is a crane as lifting them sections by hand will be near impossible. We plan to use the Slave units on...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jan 23, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    All of our locomotives worked on the moors, we never thought we’d have two big Schöma locos when we first started out with the Simplex.. it isn’t...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jan 23, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Crowle Peatland Railway - News

    Crowle & Thorne Moor (where we are based) is a SSSi site, and one of the biggest nature reserves in the country. So we have to respect the area,...
    Post by: William Coleman, Jan 23, 2019 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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