Gartell Light Railway

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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 Template:Track gauge narrow gauge railway running for Template:Convert, partly along the track of the old Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

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<ref name="IRS 14EL" />
6	Mr. G	North Dorset Locomotive Works	0-4-2T	1998	698<ref name="IRS 14EL">Template:Irs-el</ref>	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		<ref name="GLR Guide">Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>