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Trespass Sunday 20th February 2023
01/03/2023Sadly again some members of the public believe its perfectly acceptable to trespass on the railway. The images below are taken from both our CCTV and passengers on board our train. Some people don...
Read more →Railway Extension Vandalised Before First Train Runs
27/02/2023Disappointingly a small minority are taking it upon themselves to try and disrupt contractors working to bring this to reality. It started off with the gluing of door locks to machinery parked up over...
Read more →The Churnet Valley Railway Is Happy To Announce A New Appointment To The Board Of Directors.
03/02/2023David Wynne Davies C Eng MICE has joined as our Infrastructure Director, he brings over 40 years of infrastructure knowledge promoting, planning and operating motorways and major road projects. An...
Read more →Staff Day - Middleport Pottery 28th January 2023
30/01/2023The Churnet Valley Railway held a staff briefing day at the historic Middleport Pottery in Burslem, Stoke on Trent. The first such event since Covid, the railway’s management decided it would be...
Read more →Original Illustrator
15/11/2022The Churnet Valley Railway is slowly but surely reaching its near 50-year destination, with work to re-open to Leek progressing and some form of services aimed to reach this market town in 2023. Th...
Read more →S160 Heaven
03/09/2022When the railway first arrived in Cheddleton, few could imagine just what it would become in the 21st Century. From a humble countryside station with a single track goods yard to support local trade,...
Read more →Diesel Operating Update 12/08/2022
12/08/2022We are keeping in regular dialogue with the fire service, and given the exceptionally dry conditions, we are unable able to mitigate the risk sufficiently at this time. For this reason this weekend...
Read more →Rail Riders
25/07/2022The Churnet Valley Railway would like to remind future travellers that we are a proud supporter of the revived Rail Riders, that was brought back to life by original Rail Riders member Simon Buxton in...
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