• Who put that there?

    To the average punter, the dumping of 20 tons of granite track ballast on a rail line would appear to be bad news – not so at Cottesmore! Volunteers were surprised and cheered to see that through the kind support of aggregate and haulage firm Dickersons, a further load of ballast arrived to assist the…

  • Exhibit Returns to Work!

    On Tuesday 3rd July 2012 locomotive Andrew Barclay 499 left the Museum to return to work in industry! The Heritage movement is used to housing exhibits as they retire from work so the Museum was extremely pleased to assist W H Davis Ltd, railway wagon manufacturers based at Langwith Junction, Mansfield when their regular works…

  • Blast Off!

    The Museum reopens on an operational basis on 16th September 2012