Events
Visiting Loco Weekend
Visiting Loco Weekend
Returning in 2025…
Our Visiting Loco Weekend saw a varied selection of visiting locomotives in steam alongside some of the Moors Valley Railway fleet.
The 2025 will take place on 3rd & 4th May 2025. Full details to be announced shortly
Highlights from 2024
Visiting locos for 2024 were:
- Mrs. Darling – a Tinkerbell-based loco usually found at Swanley New Barn Railway
- Yeo – a 3rd scale model of a Manning Wardle Lynton and Barnstable locomotive, based at the Colne Valley Railway
- Tarn Beck – a River class loco from the Littledale Light Railway (operating Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday)
- Afon Glaslyn – another River class loco, built by the late Gerry Clarke
- Merlin – a Roger Marsh Thomas 2 design from the Chuffley Light Railway
- A Shay logging/mining replica locomotive with vertical cylinders
- Peter H – a large 2-6-2 tender loco constructed by South West Steam Engineering in 2021
As well as frequent passenger trains, visitors also enjoyed:
- Double heading on some services
- Demonstration trains pulling our freight wagon fleet and original Tucktonia covered coaches
- The Dorset Flyer service: a non-stop round trip from platform 1 at Kinsgmere Station – available exclusively to Day Rover ticket holders
Video highlights from 2024 coming soon!
