The Small Railway with BIG PlansTelford Steam Railway is thinking big with an ambitious project ‘Steaming to Ironbridge’, which would see steam trains returning to the Ironbridge Gorge.
The railway wants to extend southwards from its recently opened Lawley Village station, and create an expansion of the TSR’s current operation into a major tourism attraction for the region. |
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Telford Steam Railway's dream is to have a network of nearly 17kms of track, running steam trains from the new development of Lawley Village, with its close connections to the M54 and local transport routes, including Telford Central Railway Station and Regular Bus Routes. The extended line would run through Doseley and Lightmoor through to the world heritage site of Coalbrookdale, the "cradle of the industrial revolution", where coal was first used on an Industrial Scale to Smelt Iron and to create Steam Power, through to Buildwas, on the banks of the River Severn. This huge extension would also see Telford Steam Railway gain a connection to the Network Rail mainline through Lightmoor Junction, leading up to Madeley Junction. The re-introduction of Trains in Ironbridge would also enable us to connect our southern terminus to the very heart of the Ironbridge World Heritage Centre with a narrow gauge tramway.
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