Work on our Arn Jung Locomotive (works No. 3872) Katie is continuing. The coal bunkers and cab have been reunited with the frame today, Tuesday 4th February. We are still on track to have her operational for the Rail200 celebration day on 1st June.
Continue readingEigiau locomotive gets new fire bars
We are intending to use Eigiau on our January 25th winter steam up day. The fire bars were badly worn and distorted so we’ve been making new ones. These were installed on 16th January 2025 and test fired by Harry and Peter on Friday 17th. All a great success. Assuming nothing goes wrong this week […]
Continue readingCarriage Roof Replaced with traditional hessian
Restoration of an Old Railway Carriage Work on the centre balcony coach continues. Many thanks for donations of oil based paint – we still need more – anyone would think we’d covered the roof with a sponge!!! The roof should be finished in the next week or so and we are now working on refurbishing the […]
Continue readingOld Glory Magazine – January 2025 issue features our Garrett
This months Old Glory magazine features an extensive review of our Garrett Engine and reviews one of our 2024 event days.
Continue readingGarrett traction engine and Steam Roller visit The Sun Pub
Tony, Brian and other volunteers took the Garrett and Steam Roller to the pub on Boxing day. Accompanied by the Bean Car, it made an interesting sight on the road from The Warren to Bredgar. Chatted to quite a few people who were able to look them over – the engines not the volunteers. A […]
Continue readingBredgar’s Golden Anniversary! Celebrating 50 years of Trains at BWLR – Sunday 1 st June 2025
This June we are having a Steam Up Party to celebrate 50 years of Bredgar Railway. Our first engine, Bronhilde was brought to Bredgar in 1975 and we’ve been expanding and running monthly steam days ever since. Join us from 10am, we’re running steam engine passenger rides, the engine shed is open exhibiting all our […]
Continue readingNew Year Steam up and workshop museum guided tour – 25th January
Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway save, restore and operate a wide variety of industrial steam locomotives, tractors, farm equipment and industrial heritage. In 2025 we celebrate 50 years of operation and 200 years of rail travel. To explain the position of industrial steam locomotion in the history of the railways and the industrial revolution, we […]
Continue readingObituary – David Best 1945 – 2024
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of David Best after a long illness on Saturday 30th November aged 79. David co-founded Bredgar and Wormshill Light Railway with his best friend and brother Bill, in 1975. He will be remembered and greatly missed by his partner and soul mate Sharon, his son […]
Continue readingBrouhot Portable has all tubes removed.
We have now removed all the tubes in this portable engine. The new tubes are on order (thanks to a donation to cover the cost – you know who you are – much appreciated). We don’t expect them to be delivered until January so work will progress after the Christmas events to have the boiler […]
Continue readingLocomotive Katie gets boiler refitted.
Work on our Arn Jung Locomotive (works No. 3872) Katie is progressing well. The running gear is now nearly complete, the couplings are back on and the brakes are reconnected. The boiler has had an initial warmup steam – first for over 2 years in October. The subsequent full steam test went well now the […]
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