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 ...
Read MoreThe 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 ...
Read MoreFollowing 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 ...
Read More37029 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 ...
Read MoreThe 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 ...
Read MoreBREAKING 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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