Coleford traders pin hopes on post-lockdown recovery and extended assistance from chancellor

For the moment, the narrow gauge locomotives of the Perrygrove Railway in the Forest of Dean are tucked away in their engine shed but over the next few weeks the team will bring them out, check they are in working order and from 12 April, the hope is that it will be full steam ahead for the visitor attraction again.

“We’re very excited,” said Katherine Nelson-Brown, who runs the heritage railway on the edge of the market town of Coleford with her husband, David. “The lockdowns have been very hard. It’s been a difficult year but we’ve survived.”

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