Minor Railways

The Sections 2024 AGM took place on 13^th July at the Kidderminster Railway Museum. 14 members attended.

The 2024 programme started with a joint visit with the Midland & North Western Section to the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway on 10 & 11^th May. 28 members attended.

A visit to the private museum on Sunday 9^th June, 34 members & guests attended.

Following the AGM on the 13^th July there was a visit to the Severn Valley Bewdley Signal Boxes. 13 members attended.

• There will be a visit to the restored signal box at Epping station followed by a visit to the Epping & Ongar Railway which will take place on 7^th September. Click here for further details including how to book

• There will be a joint visit with the York & Netherlands Sections to York and the Scunthorpe Steelworks Railway. This will take place over three days on the 18^th to 20^th October. For full details and booking details click here

Please contact the Minor Railways Visits Secretary (mrsvisits@irse.org) for further details.

The Institution of Railway Signal Engineers’ Minor Railways Section are delighted to announce that there are two winners of the 2023 Technician of the Year -

Nick Wellington, S&T Engineering Manager for Kent & East Sussex Railway and

The Signalling and Telecoms team at Museumstoomtram Hoorn-Medemblik

See the Minor Railways S&T Technician of the Year page for more details about them.

The 2023bi-annual technical seminar took place on 4 November 2023 at the Kidderminster Railway Museum on the theme 'modern technology in heritage railway applications'

The IRSE Minor Railways Section publishes a series of guidelines aimed at minor and heritage railways.  All our guidance and documentation is available free of charge via the IRSE Minor Railways Section library page