Ashcross at Doncaster

Ashcross at Doncaster Race Course

Overall view of Ashcross

View of the new loco shed and the old line up to the boiler house

Looking towards the station

Roger Brown’s ‘Teddy’, a converted Hornby Caledonian Railway Pug

Teddy brings in a works train while the prototype Kerr Stuart diesel waits with a passenger train

A quiet moment in the loco shed

A Wrightlines Peckett waits for the guards whistle to signal departure

The guest appearance of a re-gauged prototype Kerr Stuart diesel excites the public!

Roger Brown’s scratch-built Kerr Stuart diesel impresses the public.

A Branchlines ‘Peacock’ prepares to haul a load of scrap in a train that includes the railway’s only ‘skip’ wagon. A ‘cool-dude’ Pete Wilson and the man ‘Who knows Pete Wilson’ are clearly not impressed and don’t take any photographs!

They told me that all proper narrow gauge railways have a skip wagon – perhaps I mis-understood?

Roger Brown’s fuelling station makes an guest appearance on a Chiver’s flat wagon

The Peckett leaves with a passenger train passing the Hunslet and Kerr Stuart in the shed while a diesel waits with a works train in the station loop

A Motor Rail Simplex positions two coal wagons at the coaling dock

The Peckett waits for departure with a passenger train while a diesel waits with a works train in the station loop

Teddy waits for the distracted man on the coaling stage to shovel some coal into it’s bunker.

The Davenport diesel departs with a train of mostly scrap metal ahead of the next passenger train

The Davenport diesel departs with a train of mostly scrap metal past the loco shed

The Peckett arives with a passenger train past the loco shed

The Peckett waits with a passenger train

Teddy finishes getting coal and water

The main entrance to the museum is through the archway. the double fronted main office has been restored but the office on the far side of the arch is still being decorated.

Roger Brown’s Motor Rail Simplex delivers coal wagons to the coaling stage

Roger Brown’s Motor Rail Simplex delivers coal wagons to the coaling stage

Teddy brings in an empty works train

Teddy brings in an empty works train

Teddy brings in an empty works train

The Kerr Stuart arrives with a passenger train

Peacock finishes taking on coal and water

‘Plymlimon’ waits with a passenger train for the Fowler-Marshall to clear the route

The Kerr Stuart arrives with a passenger train

The Kerr Stuart pulls forward ready to run around it’s train

The Kerr Stuart makes its way to the shed while the Hunslet prepare to depart with the next passenger train