Date/Time

• Sat, 7 Jul 2012, 10:00-15:00
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Location

• Churnet Valley Railway, Kingsley & Froghall Station, Froghall, ST10 2HA

IRO Area

• North West & Wales

Event Details

This year’s day out is to the historic and picturesque Churnet Valley Railwway. The visit will be based around a train ride, with a break for Refreshments.

This event is being subsidiesed and so it is VITAL that if you are interested, you respond to the Event Sponsor (Thomas Cox: thomascox1@sky.com), in order that we can gauge the size of the IRO party.
Full details of the day will be provided to those enquiring.

The costs are only:
£11 per adult;
£5 per child;
£28 per family (2 adults + 2 children)
and are All Day Rover Tickets, so we need to know how many are interested before we can talk exact timings and refreshment arrangements.

For further information and to  book place, please contact the Event Champion:
Thomas Cox at thomascox1@sky.com

A really intersing and enjoyable day is promised.
For more details on the Churnet Valley – see below

The Churnet Valley Railway
The Churnet Valley Railway is to the east of Stoke-on-Trent. The CVR has two main operational headquarters – Chedderton Station, where the motive power department is based and where the first trains ran, and Kingsley and Froghall Station, where many passengers begin their journey.

At present the railway is 101⁄4 miles (16.5 km) long, although trains operate over a further several miles of railway between the terminus at Leekbrook Junction and the stone quarries at Cauldon Low on a semi-regular basis. This stretch of railway is owned by the Moorlands & City Railway, a commercial venture which aims to run freight trains between Caldon and the main railway network at Stoke, with an agreement that the CVR can run passenger trains over it in return for the M&CR’s use of the Churnet Valley line as far as Oakamoor quarry and, in the future, Alton.

For those wanting to spend money, there is a gift shop!

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