THE Vale of Berkeley Railway Charitable Trust has launched a bold five-year plan to develop its facilities in advance of reopening Gloucestershire’s Sharpness branch as a heritage railway. The group has been working towards reinstating a four-mile section of line from its current base at Sharpness Docks through to Berkeley Road station, where it would link with the Gloucesterto Bristol main line.
The development plan involves moving the VoBR’s facilities from its current base in an old diesel shed at Sharpness docks to the nearby former freight transit sidings at
