Darley Dale Station. This building is on the down platform at Darley Dale Station and is awating restoration by the trust.

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Darley Dale Down Building Appeal Re-launched

3rd April 2010

For some time now, we have been raising a reasonable amount of money by having donation envelopes on the train and around the railway to raise funds towards our planned rescue and restoration of the derelict building on the down platform at Darley Dale Station. This has been successful in bringing in not only the donations themselves, but quite a lot of gift aid from people who had completed the declaration on the envelope.

We had produced a poster to raise the profile of these envelopes among visitors to Peak Rail. The trustees decided that we would launch our new posters to coincide with the busy Easter weekend. We found suitable places to put up the huge A1 sized posters on both platforms and on the building itself.

As these large posters cost a small fortune, it’s vital that they raise awareness of the down building project and bring in lots of money. However, these envelopes should start to bring in even more money in during the coming summer.

Then all we need to do is to raise the rest of the king’s ransom that it will cost us to bring the building back to life!

Rowsley Turntable Turns

24th March 2010

Although the trust has not been involved in the restoration of the turntable at Rowsley South, we are delighhted to celebrate the re-birth of this important part of the line's heritage. The turntable itself came from Mold Junction, but it has been installed in the original turntable pit at Rowsley.

This video shows the test with Class 37 locomotive 37152 carried out on 24th March 2010.

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