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Branchline Weekend

Quick Details

  • Duration: All Day
  • Refreshments: Add an Afternoon Tea, Cream Tea or a Bacon Roll & a Hot Drink and collect at our café to take on board the train with you.
  • Drinks: Add a 20cl prosecco to your booking for only £6.50 (18+)
  • Booking: Advanced booking is recommended.
  • Accessibility: Our stations and steam trains are fully wheelchair accessible. Contact us before booking to ensure we know you require the space, and also to get information on our carer's discount.
  • Dogs: Dogs are welcome to travel on this train at a cost of £2. Please ensure that you do not allow your dogs on the seats.
  • Food: A selection of takeaway options, including baguettes, sandwiches, pasties, snacks, cakes and drinks are available from our cafe at Norchard Station.
  • First Class: The First Class Hawksworth Inspection Saloon will be in operation on this day - an additional charge will apply to travel on board.
Adult Ages 18+
£19
Child Ages 3-17
£9.5
Under 3
Free
Dog
£2

Our home fleet is out in force for our first ‘Branchline Weekend’!

The Dean Forest Locomotive Group will be providing the two steam locomotives, the GWR Small Prairie 5541, a 4575 class small Praire tank engine built by the Great Western Railway in 1928 at Swindon works, and the BR Pannier Tank 9681, built in 1949 at Swindon, an 8750 tank that was a derived version of the 5700 class locomotive.

Carriages will be provided by the Dean Forest Railway Society, with Mark I coaches M4923, E4980, E9003 & E34742 and Mark II coaches W5341 & M5175 all in operation. They will be joined by the Hawksworth Saloon (80943) Group’s First Class Inspection Coach.

Subject to availability, the Dean Forest DMU Group will provide a 3-car Derby built class 108 diesel multiple unit, including a unique Trailer Second – TSL. This is the only vehicle of this type in existence. The DMU provides excellent views of the line.

Full timetable coming soon.

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