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Churnet Valley Railway News – General News

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Mosaic Rail

01/04/2021

The Churnet Valley Railway is excited to announce the latest developments in re-opening the line to Leek, a much talked about project that is finally looking to be achieved in the immediate future aft...

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Trespassing 9th March 2021

09/03/2021

Trespass upon the Railway continues to be a problem which both the Churnet Valley Railway (1992) PLC ‘CVR and Network Rail ‘NR’ are working hard to eliminate. The national lockdow...

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Customer Refunds

22/01/2021

2020 Santa & Steam Event - Customer Refunds   Despite our ongoing efforts, the January lockdown has resulted in a delay to our refund schedule – notably securing our own refunds f...

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Covid Tier 3 Announcement

27/11/2020

Following the announcement earlier today, the Staffordshire Moorlands has been placed into Tier 3 Covid restrictions commencing on the 2nd December 2020. We will therefore be unable to operate our San...

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A Little Thank You From The Churnet Valley

05/11/2020

As the UK’s second lockdown begins, the Churnet Valley Railway would like to take a moment to reflect on what has been the most challenging season on record. At the start of 2020 no-one could have pre...

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November Lockdown Announcement

01/11/2020

Following the announcement on Saturday evening by the Prime Minister, we will be ceasing our operations from the 2nd November2020 until the 2nd December 2020. We currently plan that all our services f...

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13th October Trespassing

13/10/2020

We are disappointed once again to find our site at Leekbrook continues to be used as a shortcut, more concerning is that it seems to be part of the school run. These are pictures taken by our contract...

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10 Years Of Cauldon Lowe Branch

03/10/2020

10 years ago today saw the first steam train operate on the Cauldon Lowe Branch in Preservation  It is exactly 10 years ago today that one of our trains crossed thorough the gates at Leekbrook...

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