History and chronology of the railway - significant dates of construction, acquisitions, etc:
| 1984- |
Purchase of material from Pearn works, Manchester |
| 1986 |
Purchase of Lister loco 50191,
1 skip wagon and 2 kiln car chassis from Yaxham Light
Railway, Norfolk |
| 1987 |
100' permanent line constructed at
Fishergreen, Ripon - 14lb/yd rail screwed onto wooden
sleepers and laid on 20mm gravel |
| 1988 |
Purchase of track forming main line of
North Bierley Sewage Treatment Works railway from
Yorkshire Water - just over half a mile of track
consisting mostly of 18' lengths in 20lb/yd rail and
26' lengths in 25lb/yd rail |
| 1989 |
Purchase of MotorRail loco (40hp Dorman
engine) serial no.? from British Coal, Kiveton Park
Colliery |
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Purchase of material at Fulford Sewage
Pumping Station, York, from Yorkshire Water - 7 skip
wagons, 2 "Easi-turnout" portable turntables
and 15 lengths of Jubilee track |
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Purchase of material at Thornton Moor
Reservoir, Haworth, from Yorkshire Water - 1 ship
wagon chassis and 1 x 8' length of Jubilee track in
14lb/yd rail |
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Purchase of material at Old Whittington
Sewage Treatment Works, Chesterfield, from Yorkshire
Water - 4 points, 1 heavy wagon turntable, 2 light
wagon turntables, 6 skip wagon chassis, 6 spare wheel
sets |
| 1990-2001 |
Construction
of permanent line in 20lb/yd Hudson track spiked to
1/2 and 1/4 BR wooden sleepers on 40mm limestone
ballast, topped with 20mm gravel, at Dallamires Lane,
Ripon
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| 1991 |
Purchase of 18 structural
steelworks 4w bolsters from demolition contractors at
Octavius Atkinson site, Starbeck, Harrogate |
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Purchase of 2 Hudson flat
wagons from Aire Valley Railway |
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Purchase of 2 kiln cars and
1 flat wagon (1'8" gauge) (ex Chemical and
Insulating Co., Darlington) and point levers from Rick
Stewart |
| 1997 |
Purchase of jimcrow, crowbar
with claw and spikes from the widow of John Craven on
dismantling of John's 3' gauge railway at Walesby,
Nottinghamshire |
| 1999 |
'Workshop branch' linked to main line
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| 2000 |
Engine shed completed
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Purchase of Lister "R"-type serial no. 7954 from Brian Gent
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| 2005 |
Construction of passing
loop (shown as "projected" in track plan
above)
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Permitted by owner of the
original maker's plate from Lister no. 7954 to make a
cast copy to reunite with the loco
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