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 […]
Continue readingOctober ’24 Newsletter
After a very busy Summer we are moving into the final months of 2024. We have a couple of autumn activities still to take place – Halloween diesels next week and then we are hosting Father Christmas for the first two weekends in December. After that it will be into the hard work of maintenance […]
Continue readingWorkshop News August 2024
July and August 2024 have been unusually busy in the workshop. Bredgar sprung a water leak. A radiator hose was found to be rubbing on part of the frame. This sounded really bad until we realised it had last been repaired by the MOD around 20 years ago so it lasted pretty well all things […]
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