Name: 100th Anniversary of the official opening of the Ashover Light Railway
Start: 2025-04-06T11:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-06T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Midland Railway - Butterley

100th Anniversary of the official opening of the Ashover Light Railway

The GVLR will be celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the official opening and first public passenger services of the Ashover Light Railway on Sunday, 6th April with ALR coach no 4 being accompanied by the resident 1914 built Orenstein & Koppel steam loco; the Ashover Band will be in attendance all afternoon.
The GVLR is delighted that a display of ALR photographs and artefacts will be mounted in its Butterley Park Station building courtesy of Robert Gratton and Stuart Band (Joint Editors of “The Ashover Light Railway” by Robert Gratton & Stuart R Band / Wild Swan Publications 1989).
Both Editors have agreed to be present.
At the official opening of the ALR in April 1925, the train was greeted at Ashover Butts by the Ashover Brass Band. When ALR Coach No 4 was launched back into passenger carrying service by the GVLR in 2014 the Ashover Brass Band was again in attendance. In keeping with this tradition, the Ashover Brass Band will be in attendance once more to celebrate the occasion and entertain our visitors during the afternoon.
Timetable
Trains will depart from the Butterley Park Station at 11.50; 12.30; 13;15; 14.00; 14.45 and 15.30.
Trains will depart from Newlands Inn Station (Golden Valley) at 12.05; 12.45; 13.30; 14.15; 15.00 and 15.45.
Both Stations can be reached by pedestrians, via footpaths from Golden Valley; Leabrooks; Riddings; Ripley and Swanwick.
Entrance to the event is also by standard gauge train from the Butterley Station of the Midland Railway – Butterley – please visit www.midlandrailway-butterley.co.uk or www.gvlr.org.uk for price of tickets.