Heritage Railway Weekend — Special Services

Dates: Saturday 6 September & Sunday 7 September
Opening times: Services start from 10:30 on both days

Plan your visit

Join us for a special weekend of heritage rail operations with extra trains, a brewery evening service on Saturday and bus links to make visiting all of our sites easy and convenient. Services start at 10:30 on both days from Oswestry and Llynclys.

Travel & accessibility

To help you move around the event we will be operating rail replacement buses on both days:

Gobowen Station → Oswestry Station

Weston Wharf → Llynclys Station

These buses make it easy to enjoy all of our sites — please follow on-site signage and staff directions for boarding locations and timings.

Weekend locomotive roster

We’re running a mix of diesel-hauled heritage trains and regular service locomotives across the weekend:

Saturday 6 September

73129 & ‘Alun Evans’ — hauling heritage carriages between Oswestry & Weston (including the evening brewery service)

Brewery evening service runs on Saturday night — book early, spaces may be limited.

Sunday 7 September

144007 — operating trains between Oswestry & Weston

Both days at Llynclys

142055 will be operating throughout the weekend at Llynclys

Timetable highlights

Services start at 10:30 each day from Oswestry and Llynclys.

A special evening brewery service operates on Saturday — a great way to relax after a day of heritage rail watching.

(Consider adding a clear downloadable PDF timetable or an embedded timetable widget here to help visitors plan.)

Tickets & booking

Advance booking recommended for the brewery evening service and any reserved heritage-carriage journeys.

Standard fares apply for daytime services; heritage carriage supplements may apply.

Visitor information

Follow staff instructions for safe boarding and disembarking, especially where rail replacement buses are in use.

Children must be supervised at all times around the railway.