Surrey Group Peter Pan Charter - Saturday 23rd June

In 1972 a group of individuals purchased a narrow gauge railway in Rookley, Isle of Wight and the friendship has lasted to this day.  We all gathered at the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway for a photo charter organized by the Surrey Group of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway.

With 32 attendees, the day was well patronised and we had a great deal of positive feedback.  I gave a short speech to the assembled audience, which included members of the Thames Valley Group, our Chairman Peter Miles plus the Chair of the West Lancashire Light Railway Mike Spall.

Graham Morris and I gave a talk about the railway and former sand quarries and there was a false start from the terminus at Pages Park for photographic purposes.  We then boarded the train and departed from Pages Park, travelling the full length of the Leighton Buzzard Railway to the end of the line where the loco ran around and returned to the storage depot at Stonehenge Works.  Here Peter Pan came off the train and a diesel was placed on the passenger train, we set off up Mundays Hill with the diesel and Peter Pan pushed a representative skip train on a parallel track for a unique photo experience.