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Children Travel Free With Rail 200
07/01/2025Celebrate 200 Years of Railways in Great Britain with the Churnet Valley Railway, a historic and scenic railway in Staffordshire. Known as the "Little Switzerland" of England, our railway of...
Read more →Heritage Behind The Scenes Open Days 2025
02/01/2025Be Part of History: Explore the Newly Extended Churnet Valley Railway! We’re thrilled to announce the completion of Phase 1 of our exciting restoration project which was formally opened on th...
Read more →First Train Steams Into Leek 31st December 2024
31/12/2024Today marked the realisation of dreams and aspirations as the first heritage train operated by The Churnet Valley Railway (1992 ) PLC steamed into the new temporary terminus at Leek Station. ...
Read more →Cheddleton Signal Boxes Final Move
07/10/2024You may have seen our last big update featuring some pictures and a brief write up of the relocated signalbox at Cheddleton. Gregory Wilson our General Manager takes up the story which explains the jo...
Read more →Carriage And Wagon Update 04/10/2024
04/10/2024Since the last update things have progressed well on Mk1 No.4046 and MK2 No.5145. Volunteers and paid staff alike have been working to keep the railway going and to keep up the motivation and progress...
Read more →Pullman Arrival At Churnet Valley Railway
06/09/2024We are pleased to announce the arrival of CARINA our very first Pullman Car. Part of a larger project over the next 5 years this will form one of the centre pieces of our collection. Over the last...
Read more →Batt Holden Update 20/08/2024
20/08/2024April 2022, 6046 was stripped and the boiler removed from its frames. Throughout the course of 6046’s 10 year ticket various jobs have been completed to maintain the bottom end in a good conditi...
Read more →Batt Holden Update 26/07/2024
20/08/2024January 2022 saw the cab fabrication start. This has been completed in house following drawings we have acquired over the years. A local contractor came in to assist on this project while other member...
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