BODMIN STEAM TRAINS

ENJOY DINNER ON A STEAM TRAIN ON THE BODMIN WENFORD STEAM RAILWAY.

You can enjoy some excellent days out travelling by steam train. The Bodmin and Wenford Railway must be the quintessential Cornish branch line! Train companies CrossCountry, First Great Western Details. where it returned to steam in 1992 and has been a regular performer there ever since. As always on holiday we can't go to long with out a ride on a steam train and this seemed to be perfect. SANTA BY STEAM 1 hour train ride, meet Santa in his grotto, presents for all the children - more details. THE return of a Great Western Railway auto train to Cornwall is the highlight of the Bodmin Wenford Railway’s Spring Steam Spectacular on 8-11 April. Bodmin Wenford Railway on A steam railway with a 6 ½ mile line and 4 Buffet at Bodmin General and Bodmin Parkway stations also on most trains. 7597 between Boscarne junction and Bodmin General: All Aboard! The opposite side of this platform is for the trains of the Bodmin and Wenford steam railway. orientated events, including an “Easter Egg-travaganza” and the visit of Paddington Bear to Bodmin! The Bodmin Wenford Railway is typical of a branch line in the 1950s, running both steam locomotives and sel trains.

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1963 - Steam hauled passenger services to Bodmin ended but china clay trains remained steam hauled until the following year. Cornwall's only standard gauge railway still operated by steam locomotives. The trains also run through some typically lovely Cornish scenery. The Bodmin Wenford Railway is a heritage railway running mainly steam trains from Bodmin Parkway to Boscarne Junction via Bodmin General. You can enjoy a steam train dinner as part of your holiday, or even to celebrate a special event, when you're next in Cornwall. an “Easter Egg-travaganza” and the visits of Paddington Bear, Fireman Sam Peppa Pig to Bodmin! It must have been a momentous occasion when the first steam hauled train ran between Wadebridge and Bodmin, one of the earliest railways in the country. It must have been a momentous occasion when the first steam hauled train ran between Wadebridge and Bodmin, one of the earliest railways in the country. A few current news items which I hope will be of interest: 1. The BWR celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year. A day-out on the Bodmin Wenford Railway allows you to enjoy and explore some of Cornwall's finest countryside from a steam hauled branch line train. Steam trains operate from March to December - daily from 27th May to 1st October. Combine a steam-railway journey with hiking or cycling in Cornwall, or learn to drive a train's steam locomotive yourself.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY AUTOCOACH RETURNS TO CORNWALL - RAIL NEWS.

The Bodmin Wenford Railway’s auto train will be launched back into service on Friday 8 April, the first day of the line’s Spring Steam Spectacular. and the visit of Postman Pat, Paddington Bear and Fireman Sam to Bodmin! It was then the first in Cornwall to use steam power, and pre- dated the mainline to London by 25 years. trains would have to reverse there to continue the journey - something that still happens today on the Bodmin Wenford. The Bodmin and Wenford steam railway runs a number of dinning trains on select days each year. Over the border into Cornwall there is the Bodmin to Wenford Steam Railway, based at the old Bodmin Town Station.

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