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Charles Wake Locomotive at the Northampton Ironstone Railway

The volunteers at Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust are a committed bunch. Many of them are happy to dedicate a large amount of time to the upkeep and successful running of the Hunsbury Hill based site. And some are even happy to dedicate themselves to it in death. For carefully contained in the signal box of the station are the ashes of railway enthusiast Charles Wake. When he died the former railway worker asked members of the Trust, known as NIRT, to scatter his ashes at the site - but they went one step better and put them in its signal box. A former President and highly regarded member of the group, the signal acts as a memorial to Charles.Now he looks over the engine of the same name - another tribute from his friends - as it regularly ferries happy children and their parents along the track of the former ironstone works.

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The Northampton & Lamport Railway is a steam and heritage diesel operated tourist railway located in the Northamptonshire countryside just 5 miles from Northampton, within easy reach of the motorway network.

Why not drop in for a train ride or a snack at the Platform 3 Buffet?

The railway is approximately 1½ miles long, and our return train rides are about 3 miles long and take around 25 minutes in normal operation. For more details follow this link : http://www.adayout2.com/northampton-and-lamport-railway-27-c.asp

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