... visit the Gartell Light Railway for this season, comes this Sunday (25/10/09). They're open from 10.00 and first train is at 10.30. Clocks go back the night before so use the extra hour in bed to be refreshed and ready to go and see them! Signed from Templecombe in the North and Henstridge lights in the South, you can't miss it. Take a leisurely trip down the Blackmore Vale behind a steam engine - they have two, remember! Food and drink are available on site, and the GLR is an ideal family destination.
(There are Santa trains in December for which booking is essential).
I am going to try to get down on Sunday so hope to see you there.
(All photos courtesy John Penny).
2 comments:
I visited the Gartell a few years ago and the talk then was that they were going to extend back to Templecombe,but nothing seems to have happened.Is this still an aim of the Gartell,or are they content with the status quo? Down in my neck of the woods,the Launceston Steam Railway are planning to extend to Egloskerry on the old North cornwall line ,in conjunction with a cycle path,and i believe have already purchased the track for the purpose.Be nice to see this and Gartell widening their horizons.
Narrow gauge has an extraordinarily bright future. I can see thousands of miles of new NG lines opening in the UK over the next 50 years. Many will serve industry, but many more will be new build routes linking villages and small towns into the main network. Both Gartell and Launceston are percursors of this trend.
Gartell has every intention of extending to Templecombe and I think they already own some if not all of the trackbed. They have put down, I think, a couple of lengths in that direction (which cross the approach road to the line) as a declaration of intent.
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