The Gartell Light Railway is a privately run narrow gauge railway located at Yenston in the Blackmore Vale, south of Templecombe, in Somerset, England. It operates a narrow gauge railway running for , partly along the track of the old Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. The railway has 4 stations – Common Lane, Pinesway Junction, Park Lane and Tower View.
The railway is controlled using a comprehensive signalling system operated from two signalboxes – Common lane and Pinesway Junction. Both signalboxes control a mix of semaphore and colour light signals with mechanically operated points.
The railway is open to the public on selected dates through the year when it normally operates an intensive 3 train operation with departures from Common Lane station every 20 minutes through the day between 10:30 and 16:30.
The route of the GLR
- Park Lane
- Pinesway Junction
- Tower View
Locomotives
{|class="wikitable"
!Number
!Name
!Builder
!Type
!Date
!Works number
!Notes
|-
|1
|AMANDA
|Gartell Light Railway
|Bo-BoDH
|2000
|
|Ex Southend Pier Railway, rebuilt on the railway
|-
|2
|ANDREW
|Baguley-Drewry
|4wDH
|1973
|3699
|Acquired in 2007, Sold to Amberley Museum in 2025
|-
|5
|ALISON
|Alan Keef
|4wDH
|1993
|10
|Newly built for the line, based on the design of W.G. Bagnall locomotive Polar Bear
|-
|8
|Faith
|North Dorset Locomotive Works
|0-4-2T
|
|
|
|-
|9
|Jean
|Alan White
|0-4-0T+T
|2008
|
|
|}
Accidents and incidents
In April 2025 a volunteer worker was seriously injured when alighting from a moving train, a practice forbidden by the rule book.
See also
- British narrow gauge railways