Black 5 no 45440 passes Everglades Junction on the Down Main line.

The headcode indicates this train will take the Millennium Loop line

at Cockcrow Hill. © J.Clarke

Visiting Stirling 'single' no 1007, once owned by the artist Terence

Cuneo and kept at the original GCR at Walton-on-Thames, is steamed

outside the loco shed at Hardwick. © J.Clarke

Class 60 Co-Co 'Pillar' passes the advertising board facing the M25

motorway with a Hardwick-bound train that has passed around the

Millennium Loop via Green Lane. © J.Clarke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Great Cockcrow Railway 7 ¼ inch 

Construction began in mid-1965 and the first piece of the railway, between Hardwick Central and Phillips Bridge, opened on 14th September 1968. Within a year, however, the original ‘Circuit’ from Hardwick to Everglades Junction and back had been completed. Doubling of most of the line was undertaken in the early years together with some subsequent alterations and additions to the original layout as experience of operation grew and as rising passenger
numbers made it necessary to increase line capacity. Following purchase of additional land the branch from Everglades Junction to Cockcrow Hill opened in 1979, the return line via Greywood Tunnel coming into operation five years later. At first this line made a junction with the Down Main at Bishop’s Bridge but was run through independently to Everglades in 1989. Other subsequent extensions took the Jubilee Line (opened 1997) round the lower car park, this project also including a spur to provide rail access to the increasingly well-equipped workshop. The Millennium Line, opened in 2000, extended the branch to form a ½ mile long loop below Cockcrow Hill.

 

Address: Hardwick Lane, Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey
Telephone: 01932 565474
Operator: Ian Allan Miniature Railway Supplies Ltd

Line Length: 2000 yards, Complex
First opened: 1968

Website: Great Cockcrow Railway Website
Locomotives

No
Name
Type
Builder
Built
1239
4-4-0
Baldwin Bros
1913
1947
Eureka
4-6-2
L.Shaw
1926
1803
River Itchen
2-6-0
A.Schwarb/J. Davis
1939
837
4-6-0
D.Curwen
1947
73755
Longmoor
2-10-0
J.Liversage
1948
46245
City of London
4-6-2
W.Miller
1950
7915
Mere Hall
4-6-0
Rowe
1952
206
2-6-0
D.Simmonds
1956
1935
 
2-6-0
H.Saunders
1974
1401
0-4-2T
R.Sills
1980
5000
Sister Dora
4-6-0
A.J.Glaze
1981
2422
North Foreland
4-4-2
J.Lester
1983
850
Lord Nelson
4-6-0
D.Scarrott
1985
1249
0-8-0
R.Sills
1986
6115
Scots Guardsman
4-6-0
P.Almond
1988
1442
4-4-2
Parkinson/R.Hammond
1988
2744
Grand Parade
4-6-2
R.J.Warden
1990
45145
4-6-0
Axon/N.Sleet
1991
21C11
General Steam Navigation
4-6-2
M.Lester/N.Sleet
1993
8374
2-8-0
A.J.Glaze/Hancock & York
1993
45157
Glasgow Highlander
4-6-0
D.Grant
1997
30541
0-6-0
J.Butt
2000
45440
4-6-0
J.Clarke/N.Sleet
2003
Alison
0-4-2T
H.Parsons/N.Trower
2006
730
 
4-4-0
J.Morgan/J.Butt
2013
517
 
4-6-2T
R.Sills
2013
70054
Dornoch Firth
4-6-2
K.Richardson
U/C
7112
Winifred
0-6-0PM
W.Jennings/A.B.Mcleod
1958
D9007
Pinza
6-6wPH
Mardyke
c1979
A.B.Mcleod
4w-4wBE
A.J.Glaze
1982
60097
Pillar
6w-6wBE
N.Sleet
2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening Times: Sundays from May to end of October, from 1:30pm to 5pm. Also Wednesdays in August from 1pm to 4pm.

Fares: Adults £4.00, Children £3.50

GCR Page was last updated on the 2nd October 2014 with loco details and fares updated.

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