Yaxham Light Railway

Yaxham Light Railway is a narrow gauge light railway situated adjacent to Yaxham railway station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway. It is located in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk. The railway is listed as exempt from the UK Railways (Interoperability) Regulations 2000.

History

Mr David Charles Potter opened the site's first narrow gauge line in the former goods yard in 1967. This was constructed for his Hunslet "Cackler", and the disused tracks of this line can still be seen from passing trains on the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
In 1969 the loco was moved across the standard gauge line to the Yaxham Park Light Railway, which ran for over in meadows beyond the station, eventually being replaced by today's Yaxham Light Railway.

Present day

The main running line is some long. It operates a collection of industrial railway equipment acquired over the years from quarries and other locations throughout the country. Passenger trains are usually hauled by a variety of vintage diesel locomotives.

Rolling stock

Steam locomotives

YLR No.1 – "Coffee Pot" – vertical boilered locomotive built at Yaxham
YLR No. 20 – "Kidbrooke" – W. G. Bagnall Ltd built 1917
Kerr Stuart Joffre class No. 3010 - Sold to at a quarry at Carriers de la Vallee Heureuse, in France in June 1930. Imported by Rich Morris and displayed at Gloddfa Ganol. Moved to the Yaxham Light Railway, now awaiting restoration at the Statfold Barn Railway

Diesel locomotives

YLR No. 2 – "Rusty" – Lister "Rail-Truck" built 1948
YLR No. 3 – "Pest" – Lister "Rail-Truck" built 1954
YLR No. 4 – "Goofy" – 1936 Orenstein & Koppel with a Single Cylinder Crude Oil Engine
YLR No. 6 – "Colonel" – Ruston & Hornsby built 1940
YLR No. 7 – Ruston & Hornsby 16 hp class, built 1934
YLR No. 10 – "Ousel" – Motor Rail Ltd ‘20/28hp’ plate frame type, built 1937
YLR No. 13 – "Warboys" - Motor Rail Ltd ‘20/28hp’ plate frame type, built 1940
YLR No. 14 – "Army 25" – Ruston & Hornsby class ‘20DL’, built 1943
YLR No. 18 – "Planet" – F.C. Hibberd & Co Ltd type 39, built 1962
YLR No. 19 – "Penlee" – Hudson Hunslet 25 hp, built 1942. Ex-Gloddfa Ganol
YLR No. 44 - Moes built c.1955

Standard gauge goods wagons

GWR 126977 MOGO Cars Wagon, grounded body and former narrow gauge locomotive shed.