TheOneKEA wrote:
Today (Sun Oct 10, 2004), the Epping Ongar Railway Preservation
Society ran a train service using a single class 117 DMU from Ongar to
North Weald and back; a week previously, almost 10 years to the day
since the Central Line service was withdrawn, a test service was run
on Oct 3.

http://www.eorailway.co.uk/news.htm

I wonder if this means that the EOR actually has a future. I also
wonder about that DMU livery, and the precise relationship between the
original EOR company that bought the line and this new EORPS that ran
the trains today.
Having grew up in Ongar (lucky me) I know quite a lot of what
happened. When it was sold off there were tow options - Epping Ongar
Railway and a preservation society. Epping Ongar Railway won the bid
and everybody knew that they couldnt really make any money from it.
However there was loads of land included at North Weald and Ongar (Goods
Yard etc) which is now going to have houses built on it - surprise
surprise. It now looks like they are getting volunteers involved so it
doesnt cost them anything.

The preservation society shpuld of got it and Ongar would now have a
tourist attraction like the Bluebell line....

Another stuff up by Labour