The Golden Valley Light railway

GVLR - "The Works"

"The Works" is a well equipped workshop, maintenance facility, for resident and visiting NG Steam and Diesel Locomotives and the GVLR's rolling stock.

With over 300ft of track, the secure building, boasts an extensive range of machinery, including a pit with wheel drop, 5 Ton manual gantry crane, lathes, milling machine, radial drill and all other equipment needed, to get the job done!

The 1st class workshop facilities, allow the GVLR's volunteers, to maintain and restore the railways rolling stock.

The building 12m x 36m, the principle storage and workshop building of the GVLR, also known as the Running Shed, was built by a combination of the members (who had decided that they had struggled for long enough) and specialist contractors between 2002 and 2007, comprises 2 storage tracks with ballast floor and 1 workshop track with concrete floor and extra space at the sides.

That's not all! The neighbouring standard gauge workshops at Swanwick Junction include a horizontal boring machine with 3' table and larger milling machines, more lathes, a 100 ton press and loads of other stuff. We can perform almost any task required for restoring and maintaining our vehicles.