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Email to a friendHere’s the lowdown on all that’s happening on your favourite heritage railway over the Christmas period. Whether you jut fancy a mince pie in the buffet; if diesel power sets your spine tingling or it’s flat-out action with steam wherever you look, then you can find it on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway!
Christmas Day: No trains running, but volunteers on the railway wish everyone a very happy Christmas
Boxing Day: Blue timetable services are running – the first three return trips from Toddington being steam hauled, the final one diesel. You can enjoy one of the GWR’s specially-made and widely-acclaimed mince pies during your journey!
Sunday 27th December: Diesel Day! All available diesel locomotives will be working today. A full timetable with details of the main line locomotives running is on www.gwsr.com. This is a real gift for diesel enthusiasts: the GWR has one of the finest fleets of main-line diesel locomotives in the UK and this is the place to enjoy them.
Monday 28th December: Blue timetable services are running – the first three return trips from Toddington being steam hauled, the final one diesel.
Tuesday & Wednesday, 29th & 30th December: Steam Christmas Cracker! This really is the antidote to cold turkey. A steamy weekend, with all five available locomotives in operation and your last chance this year to enjoy the railway’s main line steam power at its best. The locomotives running were all built at the Great Western Railway’s celebrated Swindon works and span more than half a century of steam locomotive construction – from the National Railway Museum’s 1903-built City of Truro to Black Prince, one of the last steam locomotives built by British Railways in 1959 and now owned by the artist and wildlife conservationist David Shepherd. Once again, there is a cracking variety of trains with the first departure from Toddington at 09.45 running non-stop over the full length of the line to Cheltenham
New Year’s Eve and New Years Day – Happy New Year! Blue timetable services are running – the first three return trips from Toddington being steam hauled, the final one diesel.
Friday 1st January is the final day of operation of the 2009 season. The railway is then closed for winter maintenance, including work on the main running line as well as on locomotives, signalling, bridges and rolling stock. If you fancy a piece of the action, why don’t you volunteer?
Tickets for all services are, of course, obtainable from our booking offices at Toddington, Winchcombe (Greet) and Cheltenham Racecourse.
*All locomotives subject to availability.
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway plc
The Railway Station,
Toddington,
Gloucestershire,
GL54 5DT
Telephone: 01242 621405
Source: Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway plc
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