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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