The longest Easter egg hunt in Essex! Buy your tickets here. Easter Egg Hunt - 30, 31 March, 1, 2, April. Spring Diesel Gala - 28, 29 April. 08568 and 08580 visiting! This is the first of our ever popular Diesel Galas, home fleet and visiting diesel locomotives, come out to be put through their paces over some of the most challenging gradients in preservation. We have lots of exciting Special events planned for 2018. Follow the link for details.

The Preserved Locomotive Enthusiasts Group, or PLEG, was formally set up in 2003, though the Policy Group. Members of the group have been working together to bring you opportunities to travel behind the rarer UK preserved locomotives since 2001. I hope the above has given you answers to the PLEG who? To send us at PLEG an email.

The home of preserved and working classic traction. Due to other commitments which are hindering news updates and keeping our inbox clogged with an ever increasing number of emails, from today the Preserved Diesels website will be taking an enforced sabbatical, until further notice. We will try and update the Facebook page as and when we can, but the main news site will be locked down until such time as we find ourselves in a position to carry out more frequent updates.

Essential reading for the modern railway enthusiast. You will still be able to comment on all articles, simply by logging into the site. Chiltern gets bubbly for 50th.

Providing Rail news since 1897 -. Green light for Alliance Holdings service to Blackpool. ALLIANCE Rail Holdings, part of Arriva, has had its application to introduce services from Blackpool to London approved. GSW line blocked after engineering trains collide. THE former Glasgow and South Western line between Dumfires and Kilmarnock is closed after two engineering trains collided just before lunch time on August 1.

The depot mainly undertakes routine maintenance to electric locomotives, but also contains a diesel fuelling point enabling many different varieties of locomotive to appear.