Peak Rail are happy to extend the validity date of issued Steam Experience vouchers. All vouchers with an expiry date of 2020 or 2021 will be extended for a further period of one year. No cash refunds will be given.
Gift Vouchers for the Steam Experience Course are not currently available as we will be working to honour gift vouchers for the Steam Experience Courses purchased during the Pandemic.
Fulfil your childhood dream… Drive a Steam Locomotive! These hugely popular courses enable you to take part in the experience of a lifetime and relive the golden age of steam.
You will drive our steam locomotive, be a fireman and find out how it all works all under the instruction and watchful eye of our qualified footplate crew.
COURSE DETAILS
- Locomotive is light engine without coaching stock.
- All course tuition is operated on a one to one basis with our qualified driver and fireman.
- Section of line used is between Rowsley South Station and Church Lane Crossing.
- Commemorative Certificate of the occasion.
BOOKING Conditions
- Participants must be over 18 years of age and be reasonably fit and agile with normal intellectual abilities, with reasonable hearing and sight (glasses and hearing aids are acceptable) and without any memory impairment.
- Physical effort is needed, as well as climbing unassisted the 6ft or so onto and off the footplate there is a vertical climb using handrails and widely spaced steps.
- In case of failure of the locomotive the participant may be required to walk at least a distance of ½ mile on uneven ballast (railway track).
- Participants must not be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Prescribed medication is acceptable provided it does not adversely affect behaviour.
- The footplate can be hot and dirty, and time spent there can be arduous.
Appropriate clothing and footwear must be worn; a T shirt, shorts and trainers are NOT acceptable. - Overalls or boiler suit are preferable, but in all cases, it is recommended that clothing made from cotton should be worn next to the skin. Man-made fibres can melt onto the skin if inadvertent contact is made with any of the hot boiler fittings.
- Stout footwear, boots (preferably steel toe cap) or walking shoes are needed – NOT trainers.
- Peak Rail will provide you with safety glasses, gloves and hi visibility vest.
- Peak Rail reserve the right to ask participants to produce a letter from your GP confirming that they are fit to undertake a Steam Experience Course as set out in the above conditions.
