Bishop's Castle museum opens after years of hard work

THE Bishop's Castle Railway Society has opened its new Weighbridge Railway Museum after years of hard graft.

The society was established in 1989 to preserve remaining artefacts from the Shropshire railway that opened in 1865 after local businesses raised the money to build it, but closed in 1935 after all but one of its operational years made a loss.

The Station Street museum explores how it brought prosperity into a small isolated community by facilitating cheaper goods to be brought in, local produce to reach wider markets, and making travel to bigger towns possible.

Opening times are currently restricted to 11am to 3pm on the second and fourth Tuesday in every month.

One of its first events was a model railway society meeting on September 7.