North Weald Miniature Railway (NWDMR)
North Weald Miniature Railway (NWDMR) began in 2013, when the late Richard Goulding started construction of the miniature railway at the Epping Ongar Railway in Essex. A steam locomotive was purchased from Station Road Steam (now our Stafford R.J Goulding), track work was built and work began. Sadly although never finished – Richard ran it on a few occasions until he sadly passed away in 2015.
Very rapidly a group of volunteers got together. It also happened that by chance Richard Goulding’s Stafford steam locomotive was put up for sale having not done much work since Richard passed.
The volunteer group saw a massive opportunity here to re-unite Richards engine with its original home, and so approached the EORVS to see if a fund could be put in place to purchase the locomotive.
The team continued to look for a site to build a permanent miniature railway, but during this time the group managed to get together the track that Richard had built for the original layout and used some of it to run a portable track at special events at the EOR using the Stafford steam engine.
The Lodge Farm Park Miniature Railway in Romford, where our Stafford once ran, had just completed their track and invited our Stafford to run at their grand opening day on the 29th April 2019. Richards family and friends from the railway rode behind the locomotive on the line that Richard helped to build. The occasion was marked with a set of brass name plates made for the locomotive, officially naming the locomotive after its former owner ‘R.J Goulding’.
Visit Us
You can now come and visit the miniature railway and ride it for yourself.
It is only £3 per person and you can find the railway at Harlow Garden Centre.
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