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The distinctive Hotchley Hill Signalbox now has a block shelf for the first time in decades, plus enamel lighting shades including one rescued from the ditch behind the building! Volunteers are about to fit the remaining levers, ahead of a programme of installing signals and remodelling track. Major work has been carried to repair the…
We are very pleased to announce that the Loco Pit for visiting locomaotives is now complete. Many thanks to all of our supporters for the financial and PHYSICAL ! support .
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Out Team at Hotchley Hill continue to prepare for the arrival of electricity from the Grid. Rooms are prepared and equpment ordered ready for the big day.
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There’s a big hole in the ground appearing outside of our running shed. In the next couple of weeks it will be filled with a brand new locomotive servicing pit – long enough for the largest locomotives. It will allow us to better prepare and clean locomotives at the start and end of each operating…