Sites near steam trains?

[Claire_374246002]

Our youngest is 3 and we thought it would be good to get a weekend away, and take in a train ride. Any ideas for suitable sites. We would want to be within an hour or two of Manchester. Many thanks.

 

[Hamer_5041128]

Claire,

The caravan club site at Burr's Country Park just outside Bury has the East Lancs Steam Railway running round half of the site perimeter. This is a new C.C. site with excellent facilities and wardens.

As a person who enjoys and photographs steam trains i have booked this site later in the year.

Hamer

 

[cokey1970]

Hi Claire,

We're off to Burrs Country Park for 3 nights in a fortnight's time for the same reasons as you. Our 2 year old son is mad on trains (just like his dad!) and we thought this would be a great chance to combine vanning and trains.

Will let you know how we go on.

Martin.

 

[dazkim]

Hi

Not sure if you would do it in a 2 hour drive but the caravan club site FERRY MEADOWS has the steam train passing by there site about every hour looks and smells lovely.

CHEERS DAZKIM

 

[Saladdodger]

Try Cheddleton, on the A520 between Leek and Stone. (M6 J15/14).

I am not sure about the frequency of steamers but I recall that the line passes the site there (not a club site)

 

[cokey1970]

That's the Churnet Valley Railway at Cheddleton which runs through 6 miles of very scenic countryside. They run trains every Sunday with increasing weekday frequency towards the summer.

More information and some spectacular photographs can be seen on the CVR website.

http://www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk/
Also not too far away is the Foxfield Railway at Blythe Bridge which has the steepest incline on an adhesion railway in the UK.

 

[kathryn_5122141]

Hiya

We have a son very similar and the best place we go is to any site near York really, as they have the free National Railway Museum there. it will keep him entertained all day and you can go again the next day as well!! There is also a model railway within York Train Station where we have spent many happy hours!!

I believe there is a really nice CC site where you can walk into York along the river.

 

[Tony A.]

Claire,

At the southern tail end of Windermeer,( J36 M6 Lake district) there is the Haverthwaite to Lakeside railway. www.lakesiderailway.co.uk as for sites, take your pick.

Also while you are in the area, up the Cumbrian coast about an hour drive, at a beautiful place called Ravenglass, there is the la`l Ratty, it`s a narrow gauge railway that runs up the Exdale valley about 16 miles round trip, just put la`l ratty into google and you`ll get all info needed,

If you want more help with sites just ask

Tony A.

 

[steve_5041630]

It might be to far for yourself. But there is a CL on the North yorkshire Moors at Lockton. Its about a mile from Levisham, one of the stops on the North yorkshire Moors Steam Railway. I take my children every year, and pay for a day pass for hop-on and hop off.

The people who own the CL now have a web site as their do cottages as well.

http://www.ashfieldcottages.com/
And the Website for North York Moors Railway is

http://www.nymr.co.uk/
Something to consider. The area is superb.

 

[emmerson2]

There's a CL behind the station in Pickering. Can't remember the name but it was very pleasant.

 

[Val & Frank]

We have a son very similar and the best place we go is to any site near York really, as they have the free National Railway Museum there. it will keep him entertained all day and you can go again the next day as well!! There is also a model railway within York Train Station where we have spent many happy hours!!

What a nice way to bring up your son, seriously you will have a hero.

Val & Frank