Charnwood Forest Garden Railway

Our Roundhouse steam engines get ready for duty on the Charnwood Forest Garden Railway. Music written and played by Vo Fletcher. More of Vo's music at www.actionsongs.co.uk http://www.actionsongs.co.uk/Home.html

As the 12th year of the Charnwood Forest Garden Railway draws to a close, lets take a look at how it used to be near the beginning. The footage is probably taken in year 3, 2002! Thanks for watching and keep following!!

The CFR's new deluxe passenger Pullman coaches have now entered service. Sir Hanney collects the coaching stock from the main line loop before taking them round to the station. At St.Bernards, Tracey takes over from Sir Hanney and carries the fully loaded train to the holt. Lady Vandeleur was due to take over here however due to the loco failure, Balham was called in to take the service. The end of the day saw a Double header with Sir Hanney and Tracey.

Lady Vandeleur and Sir Hanney have the job of taking the local passenger service from St.Bernards station to Priory Heights via Priory village. At Priory Heights, two boxcars are being collected for the journey back. This video shows the new teak coaches being used on their first day in service on the CFR. Lady Vandeleur : St.Bernards - Priory Village (& Return) Sir Hanney : Priory Village - Priory Heights (& Return)

Come and join the Charnwood Forest Garden Railway - Summer Steam Spectacular and celebrate the wonderful hobby of miniature steam railways. All the 'live' steam locomotives in this video have been made by Roundhouse Engineering in Doncaster England, and represent 30 years of expert manufacturing. Listen as they steam around the railway, all fitted with their Summerlands Chuffers, for what was the largest gathering of Roundhouse locos at the Great Central Railway's Rothley Station - ever!

It's all go at the Charnwood Forest Garden Railway Steam Gala.

The Charnwood Forest Garden Railway's Mining branch line has opened for service. Though some work still needs to be done, trains are able to operate a limited service to the quarry and back.

For the first time in many months Ivor The Engine returns to CFRailway like never before, in he very own remake! The first remake of it's kind shows the first ever Ivor the engine episode. The Ivor the engine was made from the Locolines plans but built using a stronger material by Andy, one of the CFR team. Thanks for watching and keep following!

Lady Vandeleur has had some time out and has now been fitted with a summerlands chuffer and cab doors from Locoworks. I think it looks and sounds rather good, don't you?