Steam train at Perrygrove Railway steam train ride - a great day out in the Forest of Dean - a leading attraction in Gloucestershire - picture of steam train in the woods Perrygrove Railway, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Gloucestershire - a day out on our steam train in the woods is a leading attraction in Gloucestershire Perrygrove Railway steam train ride - fun for children and adults on a leading attraction in the Forest of Dean Gloucestershire near Gloucester, - picture of train on embankment Perrygrove Railway - on the borders of South Wales and not very far from Abergavenny, Bath, Berkshire, Blaenau Gwent, Brecon, Bridgend, Bristol, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Chepstow, Cirencester, Cwmbran, Gloucester, Hereford, Herefordshire, Malvern, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Neath, Newport, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Pontypool, Port Talbot, Powys, Rhondda Cynon Taff, Ross-on-Wye, Somerset, Stroud, Swansea, Swindon, Torfaen, Vale of Glamorgan, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire, Worcester & Worcestershire - steam locomotive Ursula
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Locomotive Spirit of Adventure.

Spirit of Adventure Built by the Exmoor Steam Railway. Construction commenced 1992. Completed July 1993 and taken to the Ravenglass & Eskdale railway for trials. It ended up staying a year, during which time it took over River Esk's duties for a while when that engine burst a cylinder cover. Visited the Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway in 2004. At Perrygrove it has always been very popular and it is so easy to drive that an ab initio driver can be trained very quickly. For further details please click on the thumbnail image. Owned by Michael & Frances Crofts

Locomotive Lydia

New locomotive Lydia built by Alan Keef Ltd.5 This is a large new locomotive which has been built for our railway by Alan Keef Ltd.. It has been approved by HM Railway Inspectorate and entered service in Autumn 2008. More pictures will be published here soon. This photo is by Keith Aburrow.
Owned by Treasure Train Ltd. and financed by a private individual.

Diesel Locomotive Workhorse

Workhorse This ex. industrial engine has seen an enormous amount of use at Perrygrove. Click on the thumbnail image for more details including a picture of the engine back in 1966 at the maker's workshops. More pictures here. Owned by Treasure Train Limited

Diesel Locomotive Jubilee

Jubilee 8 February 2004 We are converting this locomotive from an industrial machine.It has its own page here
Owned by Treasure Train Limited

Modern Passenger Carriages

Red Rake We have 3 modern carriages of steel construction measuring approx. 20 ft. long x 4ft wide and just under 6 ft high. Exmoor Steam Railway built all the bogies, which are fitted with brakes actuated by powerful springs and held off by compressed air. Exmoor also built the bodies for the fully enclosed and partially glazed carriage. Alan Keef Ltd. built the body for the open carriage.
Owned by Treasure Train Limited

Original wagons from Storrs Bridge Mine

Storrs bridge - large image not yet available We have 5 of these wagons which came from the fireclay mine of Thomas Marshall & Co (Loxley) Ltd. Click on the image for more details. Owned by Michael & Frances Crofts

Open truck

Open wagon This vehicle is indespensible. It is used for everything - ballast, spoil, wood cuttings and logs, tools, etc. It runs on 2'0" gauge Hudson bearings and axles and is 4' wide like most of our rolling stock. I have never measured its length. At present it waddles like a duck - the re-gauging of the axles was not a success. New axles will be fitted in 2004.Owned by Treasure Train Ltd.; Picture: Howard Martin

Box Van

Box van This is the second most useful goods wagon on the railway. In the operating season it takes the Treasure Hunt clues out each morning and brings them back in the evening. In the winter it is used to carry track maintenance equipment. The steel framework and brakes were built by Jeremy Martin and the joinery and paintwork were completed at Perrygrove.Owned by Treasure Train Ltd. Picture: Howard Martin

Converted flat wagon from South Crofty Mine

image not yet available This wagon was originally 22" gauge and was used in the South Crofty Tin Mine in Cornwall. It was rescued by Jeremy Martin when the mine closed and re-gauged to 15". It is used principally to carry a pair of 45 gallon Oil Drums. Owned by Jeremy Martin

Converted coal tub from Whitecroft mine

Whitecroft Tub This wagon was originally 2 ft.gauge and was used in the mine at Whitecroft near Parkend, about 3 miles from Perrygrove. Owned by Jeremy Martin

Other rolling stock

The railway has at present a further 12 items of rolling stock. Details of these will be posted gradually, when time is available.

Visitors
We have welcomed several visiting engines to Perrygrove and hope to welcome many others in the future.
Garratt Locomotive.

The Garratt locomotive seen at perrygrove on 9 April 2007 This Garratt locomotive is a 15" gauge version of the 2' gauge machine of 1909 which was the first of its kind ever built. It was built for the Bush Mill Railway in Tasmania and it arrived at Perrygrove in April 2005. The Bush Mill railway has closed and has been dismantled. The Garratt has been rebuilt by Mike Eddy Engineering and M22 Engineering. The locomotive visited the "Garratt 50" gala at the Welsh Highland Railway in 2008. It is now for sale - details from Preston Services. Details of the prototype locomotive are at a site run by a supporter of the Welsh Highland Railway. Owned by GLI Ltd..

Pompey

Pompey Pompey This big diesel locomotive was built by the local railway engineers Alan Keef Ltd. for a private customer. Pompey is a lovely machine and we enjoyed having it at Perrygrove. The first picture shows it on a load test pulling two steam locomotives and several carriages. The second picture shows the team from Alan Keef.

Mark Timothy

Mark Timothy1 Mark Timothy came to Perrygrove from the Bure Valley Railway where it had never worked. It ran on our tracks for testing and evaluation before going on to the works of Alan Keef Ltd. where it has been rebuilt. The picture shows it hauling a test train at Perrygrove. It is now running at the Bure Valley Railway, and has an appearance based on the narrow gauge Leek and Manifold Railway locomotives.

Effie

Effie at Perrygrove A replica of Sir Arthur Heywood's Effie visited us for a special event.

Morse Switcher

image not yet available This locomotive is based at the Evesham Vale Light Railway and visited us at the same time as Effie

Could you offer any of your time to help with further development of this side of the railway? If you are interested, please look at what is going on behind the scenes by going to our Diary page. The development of new rolling stock and other minimum gauge estate railway features is very satisfying and depends on help from volunteers.
Continue to the next history page to find out more about Heywood railways and Perrygrove
Do you have any pictures of our railway in electronic format? We will always be pleased to consider them for inclusion on this website. Contact us here.