Ashorne Hall Railway

Description

The railway at Ashorne Hall in Warwickshire was short lived. Conceived as an added attraction to the collection of mechanical musical instruments it had the title the Nickelodean Line.

It was 12.25 inch gauge and had a clever and complicated track layout giving a journey of about one mile in a resticted area of 6 acres. With two substantail stations, a tunnel and engine shed it was very well equiped. Sadly the death of its creator Graham Whitehead in 2003 meant it closed never to reopen. It was dismantled and sold in 2005 and the track lifted. The steam locomotive is now at the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway and the petrol locomotive and carriages at the Wilderness Railway

Equipment

Locomotives

2-4-2TAshorne built 1994 by Exmoor Steam Railway

2-4-2 Bella built locally on chassis suppiled by Exmoor Steam Railway

5 bogie carriages & 2 tip wagons