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Hunslet steam locomotive visiting for the start of the 2025 season

18th March 2025

We are delighted to welcome Hunslet Austerity locomotive 3890 which is joining us for the first part of our running season! The locomotive was built in 1964 for the National Coal Board to a design used to supply to the Ministry of Defence and similar to an LNER J94 type. The locomotive ...

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Cancellation of Winter Bus Event

7th February 2025

The Epping Ongar Railway has today announced that, regretfully, the Winter Bus Event scheduled for 23 February has had to be cancelled. This is due to ongoing essential engineering work on the Epping to Ongar line, requiring the site at North Weald station to be used for the storage of ...

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Services resume in April - essential engineering works this Winter

12th January 2025

Following a busy 2024 season, and with the last of our successful Epping Ongar Lights Express trains having arrived back at the station, the Epping Ongar Railway is commencing its essential Winter maintenance programme. Steam and heritage diesel services, together with connecting ...

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Class 37 and class 03 depart Epping Ongar Railway for the final time

12th December 2024

37029 Popular class 37 diesel locomotive, D6729 (37029), has left the Epping Ongar Railway following its recent sale. A regular performer for more than 10 years and a favourite with our volunteer diesel crews, the locomotive was stopped in 2022 due to requiring some repair work. A subsequent ...

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Former London Transport locomotive returns home

31st August 2024

The Epping Ongar Railway is delighted to welcome former London Transport Sentinel locomotive DL82 to its new home! Whilst it never worked to Ongar in London Transport days it is an important representative of London Transport traction from the 1970s so it is appropriate that the privately ...

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Lady of Legend to join Leander’s farewell

9th May 2024

BREAKING NEWS! CATCH LADY OF LEGEND IN ACTION ALONGSIDE LEANDER THIS WEEKEND! Great news, the weather is looking fantastic for our final ‘Festival of Steam - Leander's Farewell’ weekend and you’re in for a further treat as by kind permission of Didcot Railway Centre ...

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