Barnards Miniature Railway
Barnards Miniature Railway
The Main station at Burton Shaw was moved from its original location where the railway car park is now to a more sylvan position 30 meters to the North where covered facilities could be provided including toilets and a ticket/refreshments desk. The station boasts a large picnic area and this offers a great vantage point to watch the trains arrive and depart the terminus. The station layout was influenced strongly on the layout of Hythe station on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway including a Signal box and turntable. The intermediate stations of Belvedere and Sitooterie offer walks with Belvedere offering a walk up the ‘Belvedere’ affording generous views across South-East Essex, London and Kent. Sitooterie Halt offers a woodland walk to visit Thomas Heatherwick’s ‘Sitooterie’ sculpture. Angel Green is at the end of the line and the locomotives have to work hard up a long gradient to reach this station. The station it’s self is located next to a small lake and it is a great location to watch the locomotive run around it’s carriages to take the train on its return journey. The journey goes though woodland and gardens with plenty to see on the way including bridges, signal boxes, tunnels and sculptures and the railway operated by a collection of steam and diesel locomotives as well as Electric Multiple Units to which many hint to historic connections to the Essex area.
- Location
- Barnards Farm, Brentwood Road, West Horndon, Essex, CM13 3FY, GB