TODDINGTON NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYWelcome
to the homepage of the Toddington Narrow Gauge Railway, situated at the edge
of the Cotswold Hills at Toddington Station, headquarters of the
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Our line is of two foot gauge and
is operated with steam and diesel traction by the North Gloucestershire
Railway Co. Ltd. You will find steam locomotives that operated
on narrow gauge railways in Belgium, Poland and South Africa. On rainy
days you may travel in a carriage that ran on the narrow gauge railways
of Poland and a very rare survivor. Our other carriages are open and
give a more intimate view of railway operation than on standard gauge
trains. Nearly all of our rolling stock is kept under cover in our
large shed that is open when trains are running. Additionally you may
visit our ex Midland Railway signal box, California Crossing, that came
from Gloucester and served the Birmingham to Bristol main line.

Photo S.A. Mourton
Taken at Didbrook loop, the southern terminous of the line, this photo is of JUSTINE, one of the resident locos at Toddington.
JUSTINE was built by Arnold Jung of Kirchen an der Siieg, Germany in 1906 and is a typical 0-4-0 well tank of which many
thousands
were built for industry and contractors. JUSTINE spent her working life
at a gravel washery at Maeseyck on the banks
of the river Maas in Belgium in the ownership of Gerard Smeets and was named after one of his daughters.
Tthe carriages are built on the frames of Hudson bogie wagons of a type used in RAF depots.
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