SUCCESSFUL GALA WEEKEND

Our gala weekend on 9th/10th August 2003 attracted over 1,300 visitors to Marine Lake. Our visiting locomotives were 4-4-2 Sutton Flyer and the Sutton railcar No 4, from Cleethorpes Coast Light Railway. We ran Flyer with six coaches each day - the first time since the 1960s that the railway had run a train as long as this.. Cagney No 44 was also going round, as the pictures show.

Pictures by Richard Shaw, Norman Spilsbury, John Myers, Simon Townsend.

The RMR carried 5,113 passengers during 2003. 

During Winter 2003/2004:

Joan is being overhauled at our Wrexham workshops. Her smokebox is being renewed, some bearings are being remachined, new lubrication is being provided.

At Rhyl the sixth 'Milnes' coach is being finished off, and the Lister diesel is to have a new tram-type body. Our air brake system is being completed, with control boxes provided on the locomotives.