Rudyard Lake Steam Railway

end of line 1800 m

Hunthouse Wood Station 1750 m

crossing point

Dam Station 500 m

107 m

LC 50 m

Rudyard Station 0m

to sheds

The Rudyard Lake Steam Railway is a ridable miniature railway and the third railway of any gauge to run along the side of Rudyard Lake in Staffordshire. The railway runs for 1 ¹⁄₂ miles (2.4 km) on the track bed of an old standard gauge North Staffordshire Railway line. After the NSR line closed down, a small narrow gauge train ran on the site for two years before moving via Suffolk to Trago Mills in Devon. The current line started in 1985 and is 10 ¹⁄₄ in (260 mm) gauge, and operates to a timetable. It was built by Peter Hanton of Congleton working on his own over a period of 10 years. He sold the railway to the Rudyard Lake Steam Railway Ltd in October 2000 who have developed it since that date.
Trains are about half the size a normal narrow gauge railway and are steam hauled. The railway runs from Rudyard railway station to the Dam then along the side of the lake to terminate by the lakeside at Hunthouse Wood. This is about a mile South of the site of the old Cliffe Park railway station. The Railway was purchased by the Leek and Rudyard Railway on 18th December 2015. This company owns the assets of the former Mull Railway and has plans to combine the two railways at Rudyard.

Trains run on Sundays and Bank Holidays from January to the end of November, with more regular services from Easter to October and daily during school holidays. The railway is a member of Britains Great Little Railways and was a member of the Heritage Railway Association.

Distance are approx.

It has six steam locomotives, mostly named by the former owner's wife after the legends of King Arthur:

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