After the completion of phase 1 groundworks, track laying and a visit from the officials of the Railway Inspectorate (the father in law!) the Castle Hill Light Railway began revenue earning operation on a cold but clear day on the 17th October.
Here are a couple of pictures to whet your appetite of things to come. The first train was a scrap train from the recycling yard down the north end of the line to Junction station.
We will start to update you on happenings at the line which whilst has its roots firmly in an industrial past, will start to develop a complimentary passenger and freight operation in the comings months.
(Wee Yin (now loco No.1 Lola) heads a scrap train from the recycling yard northward pass Wood Yard halt. Jock the driver who came with the loco from a narrow gauge railway in Shetland, has settled in Kent as a member of the team on the CHLR)
