Much-loved miniature railway shares exciting plans a year on from its reopening

The Basildon Miniature Railway, located in Pitsea’s Wat Tyler Country Park, reopened on August 10 last year after a major restoration effort led by volunteers. (Image: Basildon Miniature Railway)"We’ve also a 600 metre extension we want to get reopened. (Image: Basildon Miniature Railway)Treasured - The railway in the 90s. (Image: Basildon Miniature Railway)Project - Dan led the restoration. (Image: Basildon Miniature Railway)Dan first helped lay the original track as a teenager in the 1980s and led the five-year volunteer effort to restore the railway.