Amerton Railway

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Amerton Railway
Locale England
Dates of operation 1992 – Present
Track gauge 2 ft (610 mm)
Headquarters Stafford
Kerr Stuart Tatoo locomotive with passenger train.
Isabel, spent her life in industrial use in Staffordshire and was the reason for the creation of the line.

The Amerton Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway in the English county of Staffordshire. It is owned by the Staffordshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society.

Construction of the railway was begun in 1990 in a field at the side of Amerton Working Farm. The first trains ran in 1992, but it was around 10 years later when the railway was completed as a full circle with two passing loops.

Locomotives

Name Builder Type Date Works number Notes
Isabel W.G. Bagnall 0-4-0ST 1897 1491 Built for the Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway.
Henschel 0-8-0T 1916 526 Built for the German trench railways. Spent most of its working life at the Sena Sugar Estate, Mozambique. Now under restoration.
Motor Rail 4wDM 1975 40SD501 Built for the Severn Trent Water Authority's Minworth Sewage Works. Arrived at Amerton in 1991.
Motor Rail 4wDM 1940 7471 Built for Hussey, Egan & Pickmere Ltd, Birmingham. Arrived at Amerton in 1991.
Dreadnought Baguley 0-4-0DM (steam outline) 1939 3024 Built for Wilson's Pleasure Railway, Allhallows-on-Sea, Kent. Arrived at Amerton in 1991.
Yard No. 70 Ruston and Hornsby 4wDM 1943 221623 Built for the 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge Chattenden and Upnor Railway. Arrived at Amerton in 1992.
Gordon Hunslet 4wDM 1978 8561 Built for the National Coal Board's Allerton Bywater and Castlebridge collieries. Arrived at Amerton in 1996.
The Littleton Ruston (unofficial name) Ruston and Hornsby 4wDM 1964 506491 Built for the 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge National Coal Board South Staffordshire Collieries. Arrived at Amerton in 1992.
Golspie Baguley 0-4-0DM (steam outline) 1935 2085 Built for the Trentham Gardens. Arrived at Amerton in 2000.
No. 774 Baguley 0-4-0PM 1919 774 Worked on the Hendre-Ddu Tramway. On loan from the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum

References

  • Thomas, Cliff (2002). The Narrow Gauge in Britain & Ireland. Atlantic Publishers. ISBN 1-902827-05-8. 

See also

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