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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.  

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…

Thanks to your generosity we have now reached the point where we were able to place the deposit on first stage – getting the pre-built structure that will form the basis of the pit. However, we still have a long way to go before we are able to run steam on a regular basis. If…

f you’ve been looking for the LNER Gc Heritage Trust website you’ve not got lost! Welcome to our new East Midlands Transport Heritage Trust website which we hope to use to keep everyone up-to-date with our various appeals, projects and more general news. You can continue to donate to the Hotchley Hill and other long…

Work is next essential step towards the final construction programme. Contractors are on the site of the Great Central Railway’s ambitious Reunification project carrying out three weeks of work, to assess ground conditions. The project will see the creation of an eighteen mile heritage railway by joining two separate halves of the former Great Central…