New Tier 4
Due to the new Tier 4 restrictions announced yesterday, several railways have now closed for Christmas. Down here in Kent & Sussex, the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch, East Kent and Spa Valley Railways have all closed.
The RH&DR and the EKR are wholly in Tier 4 areas and whilst the start point for the Spa Valley is in Tier 2 (Eridge, East Sussex) the majority of visitors and, crucially, volunteers live in Kent (Tier 4) who have now been told to stay indoors except for very limited purposes - I understand that further North, the Nene Valley Railway is in the same position running from Tier 2 (Wansford) into Tier 4 (Peterborough) & has also closed.
The Epping/Ongar Railway (Essex), the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, the Ruislip Lido Railway (Middlesex) and the Leighton Buzzard Railway (Bedfordshire) have also had to close as they are all now in Tier 4 as well.
The Colne Valley Railway had already taken the decision to close when most of Essex was placed into Tier 3 last Thursday, whilst the East Anglian Railway Museum remains open as it is in a part of Essex which is still in Tier 2.
Elsewhere in the South East corner Mangapps Farm (Essex), the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Railway (Kent), the Kent & East Sussex Railway and the Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway (Middlesex) had already taken the decision to close earlier in the winter.
Tony
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