​Our  accreditation process of our 3 railbugs is now complete, and we can start running our not for profit venture on 4 kms of the picturesque north east railway line at Turners Marsh very soon. We will then be self sustainable with all money raised being returned to L&NER to enable our group and members growth.

Our other projects are to maintain our 3 vintage locomotives as future museum pieces at Lilydale station and upkeep and maintain our leased 14kms of railway line between Turners Marsh and Lilydale.

Having become a Men’s Shed we are working on expanding our range of activities to cater for our growing number of members. These activity’s include refitting and upgrading an old guards van to be a coffee shop, and learning about solar powered and battery storage which will enable training of our members in setting up our new Railbug shed to run off the grid and be self powered by the sun with excess power to be stored in batteries.

Building a clean green electric train in the “future” that will run off our solar powered shed, recharging the train and running it for near zero cost. This has gained a huge amount of interest and new members have joined to get involved.