Track Facilities
- One of the longest 5" and 7¼" tracks in Somerset (view our Track Layout)
- Shunting yards
- Storage for club and members' locomotives with a carriage storage facility for the society's 12 specially built carriages.
- Station Building (newly refurbished) allowing the safe public access to the trains operated by the trained members of the Bath and West Steam Railway.
- An extensive Signalling System linked to the points.
- Sidings and turntable for the moving of both 5" and 7¼" locomotives.
- New marshalling yards for the 5" locomotives and rolling stock.
- Hydraulic lift allowing members and guests to bring their Locomotives onto the rail track.
Workshop Facilities
Facilities at ESSMEE are comprehensive and extensive as you would expect operating a workshop for this size of railway. We have.....
- Lathes.
- Pillar drills
- Milling machines
- Press and guillotine facilities
- Comprehensive stores
- 3D printing
- Welding facilities
- Shot blasting
