Information and photographs including the workhorse pannier tank steam engines and diesels capable of hauling 20 loaded quarry wagons.

The wind tunnel tested streamlined railcars which ran on the railway.

From Monmouth Troy station which was dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Steam Railway, to the romantic association of Tidenham station ending at Chepstow.

Two major quarries were served by the Wye Valley Railway:

Tintern Quarry operated from 1931 to 1981.

Tidenham (Dayhouse Quarry) was operated by T.S.Thomas (Lydney) Ltd. Tidenham station was turned into a stone loading site for the quarry in 1968. The last train ran to the quarry in September 1992.

Platelayers maintained the track, the railway- owned land next to the track and the tunnels. They used platelayer huts for shelter, tea and meal breaks.

From the 1930’s railway companies started to offer holiday accommodation in converted railway coaches which had reached the end of their life as passenger vehicles. The only camp coach on the Wye Valley Railway was in a siding at Tintern and first appeared in 1935.

From Victorian four wheeled gas-lit coaches to autocoaches which had a driving cab at one end.

Internal coach details include decorative blinds and thief proof toilet roll holders.

There is an old railway saying that ‘goods provided the bread and butter -passengers only the jam’. The truth of this is explained with descriptions of the freight conveyed on the line and the wagons that carried it.

The railway was regularly in financial difficulties and lost money every year until amalgamation with the GWR. Extensive publicity in the 1930s stimulated traffic but buses and improved road freight transport eventually brought closure after over 100 years.