What's happening in Beeston, Belle Isle, Cottingley, Holbeck, Hunslet, Middleton and Stourton
The American ancestor of a 19th century railway worker has rediscovered a fascinating family connection to a dramatic explosion on the Middleton Railway with the help of the world’s oldest model locomotive. Lisa Roger journeyed more than 5,000 miles from her home in Phoenix, Arizona to Leeds Industrial Museum to
On Saturday (6 April 2024) Middleton Railway celebrated the many community groups in the area at their Community Day. As well as free train rides up to Middleton Park, visitors at the Moor Road station were able to talk to groups including: Middleton Life History Group MHA Communities South Leeds
The Middleton Railway took delivery of a 125 year old Leeds built steam locomotive on 26 January. ‘Hawarden’ was built in 1899 as works number 526 by the famous firm of Hudswell Clarke and Company of Hunslet and is a classic example of a late Victorian steam locomotive. It will
Middleton Railway have revealed that they are in the running for the prestigious Steam Railway magazine award from the Heritage Railway Association (HRA), but they need your help. They have been nominated, along with the Vintage Carriage Trust, for the overhaul of Manning Wardle 0-6-0 ‘Sir Berkeley’, which we reported
Bookings are open, and selling fast, for the ever popular Santa Specials at Middleton Railway, which has also published a calendar this year. This Sunday (29 October 2023) will be the last regular steam service on the railway for this year, which will be closed during November as it prepares
The results are in from this year’s Yorkshire in Bloom awards showing that both Middleton Railway and Beeston in Bloom have won Gold, with Beeston also winning joint best in category. Beeston was competing in the Urban Community and won jointly with Starbeck (near Harrogate). In their comments the Judges
Last Wednesday (16 August 2023) physical work commenced on ‘Little Moor Park’, Leeds City Council’s new recreational space on Moor Road in Hunslet, which has been developed in collaboration with the Middleton Railway Trust (MRT), based opposite. Four new information boards have been placed around the site, giving details of
Middleton Railway was celebrating its Youth Group who took over the running of the railway today (6 August 2023). The group was awarded their runners up certificate in the Rising Stars category of the Heritage Railway Association (HRA). Presenting the award, Noel Hartley, a Director at the HRA, said: “It’s
John Blenkinsop was a Mining Engineer and Steam Locomotive designer who was born at Felling, near Gateshead, County Durham. When he was old enough he was apprenticed to his cousin, John Straker, the Coal Viewer for Charles John Brandling’s Felling Colliery. Brandling lived at Tilling, County Durham; and he married
If you go down to the woods … Nature is gearing up to put on a spectacular display in Middleton Park – the bluebells are flowering. The leaves started appearing in January and have been growing stronger and denser. Over the last few weeks the first flowers have emerged providing