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Epping Ongar Light Fantastic - Helping our friends in the Emergency Services

7th November 2022

The Epping Ongar Railway will start running its amazing Lights Train on 18 November from Ongar to North Weald. The show, revamped following feedback from 2022, is much improved with bigger and better displays and makes use of the ample parking available in Ongar Town Centre. Fares for all have ...

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Epping Ongar Railway hosts ORR policy teams for informal visit

7th October 2022

In early October, the Railway welcomed His Majesty's Principal Inspector of Railways, Steve Turner, and a group from an Office of Rail and Road (ORR) policy team. The ORR develops regulations that apply to heritage railways, as well as the national rail network, and this informal visit was ...

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Statement on the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II

8th September 2022

On behalf of the Railway and all our community, we are very saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty the Queen and offer our condolences to the whole royal family at this very sad time, with gratitude for decades of public service as the longest-serving monarch in British history. Our ...

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Steam returns this Autumn

1st September 2022

The Epping Ongar Railway is delighted to announce that our steam locomotives will be back in action this Autumn! Now that the risk of lineside fires has subsided substantially steam services will from the weekend of 3 and 4 September, for the remainder of the season. Dean ...

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Our Steam and Pleasant Land in the Penny Salon this Autumn

1st September 2022

This Steam and Pleasant Land, the latest exhibtion in the Penny Salon Gallery at Ongar station goes on show from 3 September and runs through to mid October. There are few photographers today that can match the dedication, and highly individual quality out-put from the last few decades of steam ...

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EOR to host a Musical Box Society Exhibition on 13 August

6th August 2022

On Saturday 13 August the Epping Ongar Railway will be hosting a display by the Musical Box Society of Great Britain. Come and be amazed at an exhibition of Victorian and early 20th century mechanical musical boxes and phonographs, on display in the Booking Hall at North Weald station. All are ...

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