“SECRET” LOCO REVEAL: SOTILLOS.
We’re delighted to announce that a very special engine – hidden from public view for almost 60 years – has just gone on display at our museum in Aberystwyth. Following decades of storage, we’ve recently given it a clean and spruce-up. It’s an 0-6-2T built by Borsig of Berlin in 1906. Because it was bought and shipped to Surrey as soon as its railway closed down in 1967, it is…
New arrivals at the Vale of Rheidol
This week, we were excited to announce the arrival of the last two Collection ‘X’ locomotives from their long-term storage in Surrey. These are the Avonside ‘Heisler’ Renishaw No. 4 (built 1931), and the Bagnall Articulated Renishaw No. 5 (built 1936). They had both lived at the late Peter Rampton’s farm in Surrey for over…