Woodhorn Narrow Gauge Railway

In 1991, the Woodhorn Museum and Northumberland Archives (Wansbeck Council) was given an ex-mining locomotive and three man-riding cars by the NCB, following the closure of Vane Tempest colliery in County Durham. The line was built, completed in 1994, and ran from the site of the present Museum, along the side of the Queen Elizabeth II Country Park, terminating at the platform known as Lakeside Halt. For twenty years a visitor attraction was run by volunteers. In that time two additional engines were acquired: an engine involved in the construction of the Channel Tunnel, and another that was a mining shunter train. However in 2018 operations were shuttered due to a lack of volunteers. A…