East Herts Miniature Railway
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The East Herts Miniature Railway (EHMR) is situated behind Van Hages Garden Centre in Great Amwell near Ware, Hertfordshire
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It opened in 1978 and by 2006 it had carried 1 million passengers. It is open Saturdays 11:00-17:00 and Sundays & Public Holidays 11:00-16:30. Its primary purpose is to give mainly steam-hauled train rides to the general public on a gauge track. £25,000 has been donated to Amwell View School from the EHMR.
The current length of the track is around 1/4 of a mile and the journey time is 3.5 minutes. There are 3 steam locos ("J.C.B. Miller" & "Peter Brown" both 0-4-2 Tinkerbell class locos & "Ellan Bee" a 2-4-2 ) & 2 petrol locos ("H.G. Harrison" an 0-4-0 + tender sit on loco & "John Patton" a 2-6-2 sit in loco) belonging to the company which are in regular use. The site comprises a station with canopy and booking office, bridge, tunnel, turntable
, signal box (ex London Underground
at Hyde Park Corner
on the Piccadilly Line
), steaming bays, level crossing
and workshop. Colour light signals and electro-pneumatic points are in operation on special event days.
Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...
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It opened in 1978 and by 2006 it had carried 1 million passengers. It is open Saturdays 11:00-17:00 and Sundays & Public Holidays 11:00-16:30. Its primary purpose is to give mainly steam-hauled train rides to the general public on a gauge track. £25,000 has been donated to Amwell View School from the EHMR.
The current length of the track is around 1/4 of a mile and the journey time is 3.5 minutes. There are 3 steam locos ("J.C.B. Miller" & "Peter Brown" both 0-4-2 Tinkerbell class locos & "Ellan Bee" a 2-4-2 ) & 2 petrol locos ("H.G. Harrison" an 0-4-0 + tender sit on loco & "John Patton" a 2-6-2 sit in loco) belonging to the company which are in regular use. The site comprises a station with canopy and booking office, bridge, tunnel, turntable
Turntable
A turntable is generally a rotating platform, and may refer to:-Music:* Turntable, a motor-driven platform that normally rotates a gramophone record at a constant rotational velocity as part of a phonograph....
, signal box (ex London Underground
London Underground
The London Underground is a rapid transit system serving a large part of Greater London and some parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex in England...
at Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner
Hyde Park Corner is a place in London, at the south-east corner of Hyde Park. It is a major intersection where Park Lane, Knightsbridge, Piccadilly, Grosvenor Place and Constitution Hill converge...
on the Piccadilly Line
Piccadilly Line
The Piccadilly line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. It is the fifth busiest line on the Underground network judged by the number of passengers transported per year. It is mainly a deep-level line, running from the north to the west of London via Zone 1, with...
), steaming bays, level crossing
Level crossing
A level crossing occurs where a railway line is intersected by a road or path onone level, without recourse to a bridge or tunnel. It is a type of at-grade intersection. The term also applies when a light rail line with separate right-of-way or reserved track crosses a road in the same fashion...
and workshop. Colour light signals and electro-pneumatic points are in operation on special event days.