Opened in 1925 the Ashover Light Railway was a 2ft gauge railway connecting
Ashover with Clay Cross in Derbyshire.
It was closed in 1949 and two of its original Gloucester built passenger
carriages survive on the LCLR.
For much more historical detail see - http://www.narrow-gauge-pleasure.co.uk/rlyashover.html
(Photo - Chris Bates collection)
A fine vintage view of an Ashover Light Railway train carrying Lincolnshire
Boy Scouts.
Examples of the first and fourth coaches survived closure and were
used extensively on the
Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway. They are now at the LCLR near
Skegness.
(Photo - Chris Bates collection)
Ashover Light Railway Baldwin 4-6-0 tank locomotive
"Joan" taking water.
(Photo - Chris Bates collection)
A rare view of Derbyshire from the ALR train window.
(Photo courtesy of Paul Jarvis)
Two ex-WDLR Class D bogie wagons at Fallgate on the Ashover Light
Railway around 1949.
Photo shows large amounts of stone waiting to be loaded/already
loaded presumably for onward
transit to the Clay Cross Company's factory at Clay Cross.