News – Page 2 – South Downs Light Railway

April 2021 – The weed killer!

Since reopening to the public this year, the track and lineside has become quite over-grown with the lack of trains running. To […]

Since the start of 2021 Alan Eatwell has been at the Railway most Thursdays working on his loco Agapanthus. This work has […]

We’re happy to announce that the railway will be re-opening on Sunday 18th April with a two-train day. Following that, we are […]

Today we have released our Santa Special tickets for 2020. Things will be a little different to previous year, but we’re happy […]

We’re happy to announce that we’re planning to re-open the railway on Sunday 26th July and then every Sunday in August. We […]

We understand that there are lots of concerns around the current COVID-19 virus. Following a meeting of our Board meeting tonight (19/03/2020), […]

This year’s work weekend sees us start a major task, that being to remove the bridge by the swimming pools, re-align the […]

We’re proud to announce the visit of 4498 Sir Nigel Gresley from Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway for our annual Steam Gala, running […]

March saw the start of the new running season at SDLR, along with the Annual General Meeting on 23rd March, during which […]

Truly amazing progress (as can been seen in the gallery below) with the re-railing project over the last few days, digging new […]