Yaxham Light Railway
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Yaxham Light Railway is a Template:RailGauge narrow gauge light railway (heritage railway) situated adjacent to Yaxham railway station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway. It is located in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk.[1] The railway is listed as exempt from the UK Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2000.[2]
History
Mr David Charles Potter opened the site's first narrow gauge line in the former goods yard in 1967.[3] This was constructed for his Hunslet 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix "Cackler", and the disused tracks of this line can still be seen from passing trains on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
In 1969 the loco was moved across the standard gauge line to the Yaxham Park Light Railway (YPLR), which ran for over Script error: No such module "convert". in meadows beyond the station, eventually being replaced by today's Yaxham Light Railway.[4]
Present day
The main running line is some Script error: No such module "convert". long.[5] It operates a collection of industrial railway equipment acquired over the years from quarries and other locations throughout the country. Passenger trains are usually hauled by a variety of vintage diesel locomotives.[6][7]
Rolling stock
Steam locomotives
- YLR No.1 – "Coffee Pot" – 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix vertical boilered locomotive built at Yaxham
- YLR No. 20 – "Kidbrooke" – W. G. Bagnall Ltd 0-4-0Template:Whyte suffix built 1917 (named after its service at RAF Kidbrooke)[3][8]
- Kerr Stuart Joffre class No. 3010 - Sold to at a quarry at Carriers de la Vallee Heureuse, in France in June 1930. Imported by Rich Morris and displayed at Gloddfa Ganol. Moved to the Yaxham Light Railway,[9] now awaiting restoration at the Statfold Barn Railway[10]
Diesel locomotives
- YLR No. 2 – "Rusty" – Lister "Rail-Truck" built 1948
- YLR No. 3 – "Pest" – Lister "Rail-Truck" built 1954[3]
- YLR No. 4 – "Goofy" – 1936 Orenstein & Koppel with a Single Cylinder Crude Oil Engine[3]
- YLR No. 6 – "Colonel" – Ruston & Hornsby built 1940[3]
- YLR No. 7 – Ruston & Hornsby 16 hp class, built 1934[3]
- YLR No. 10 – "Ousel" – Motor Rail Ltd ‘20/28hp’ plate frame type, built 1937[3]
- YLR No. 13 – "Warboys" - Motor Rail Ltd ‘20/28hp’ plate frame type, built 1940[3]
- YLR No. 14 – "Army 25" – Ruston & Hornsby class ‘20DL’, built 1943[3]
- YLR No. 18 – "Planet" – F.C. Hibberd & Co Ltd type 39, built 1962[3]
- YLR No. 19 – "Penlee" – Hudson Hunslet 25 hp, built 1942.[3] Ex-Gloddfa Ganol
- YLR No. 44 - Moes built c.1955[3]
Standard gauge goods wagons
- GWR 126977 MOGO Cars Wagon, grounded body and former narrow gauge locomotive shed.[11]
See also
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- Bressingham Steam and Gardens
- Bure Valley Railway
- Mid-Norfolk Railway
- North Norfolk Railway
- Wells and Walsingham Light Railway
- Whitwell & Reepham railway station
References
- ↑ Yaxham Railway
- ↑ Approved List of Exclusions from the scope of the Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2011
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- ↑ Kidbrooke
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- ↑ GWR 126977 (body only) Motor Car Van built 1935
External links
- Archive version of Yaxham Light Railway website
- Yaxham Light Railway on Facebook
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