The Little Orchard Railway

A 7¼" gauge private garden railway
On Shed
In The Beginning
The Work Goes On ...
... And On
The Grand Opening
At The Roundhouse
Railway Plan
Engines and rolling stock
Our Photo Gallery 2007
Our First Public Open Day
Gavin's Open Day pictures
Our Photo Gallery 2008
Open Days
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On A Personal Note
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Our first public open day was on the 16th of September 2007

 

We wanted to raise funds for the Village Hall

178 tickets were sold and

with donations we made

£91.75 on ticket sales

and sold teas and coffees

which made £13.25 

So on the following evening at a meeting of the Parish Council we were all very proud to present the Village Hall committee with a cheque for £105.00

The day was beautiful

 

(which was another first for us) 

The day began with the guys setting up the equipment and the girls,

having made us tea,

looking at wedding photo's 

 

It is Russell's wedding photo's the girls are looking at

 

Luke is now old enough to start to worry about weddings

 

Brian, having been married for years

 ignores it all

 

probably very wise 

 

New staff

 

Callum, ticket clippers at the ready

 

New staff

 

Fraser, with his station master's hat on! 

 

 Callum and Fraser ran Fullerton Wood Station

for the day...

 

... and had a small reward for all their hard work 

 

 Glenda and the trucks are waiting for a turn on duty

 

Kevin and Eleanor take our first guests 

 

 See who you know

(I've spotted Hilda and Ken) ...

 

...if you wish, if you have photo's

of the day you can email them to me

and I'll add them to this photo gallery

Peter Scott of the Branchline Society had missed their special open day and so he came to our open day and thoroughly enjoyed himself

 

He also kindly sent me these two pictures

 

He said the railway was "possibly" unique

 and he should know as he has visited most railways in the UK, so that is a massive compliment - Thanks Peter

 

 

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