Footplate Experience

Footplate Experience is all about enjoying diesel and steam engines first hand - on the footplate. Please have a look at our website for details!

[RHDR @RHDR]

🤩 #Winning e-guide 🤩
#Support us by purchasing a #Virtual #Steam and #Diesel Gala e-guide and timetable and be in with the chance of winning a footplate ride. The winner will be chosen at random during the Gala on Saturday 16th May.
https://t.co/je3UpMSXtC

[Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway @bonessrailway]

@ViewFromCamera @railadvent This is something we already offer https://t.co/c2teJcgSid however our steam footplate experiences are sold out for 2020. We do diesel footplate experiences too! ^JS

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

@Disc_light Second that!

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

@EastSomersetRly That’s me! I always get the best jobs @EastSomersetRly

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

Been very quiet @FootplateExp over the last few months #covid. Been busy volunteering when possible -great team and great fun! Been wondering whether to keep the website going. It gets 500 hits a week for @footplate experiences in UK. Need advertisers! Anyone interested?DM Joe

[North Yorkshire Moors Railway @nymr]

Happy #YorkshireDay!

It’s great to be back 😀 watch the first train leave Pickering on the 0930 this morning.

To book tickets for our Welcome Back services visit https://t.co/1GSBN7RJRn

[North Yorkshire Moors Railway @nymr]

Only 7 sleeps until we #WelcomeYouBack! 👍😀

Here is S15 No.825 at Pickering. If you have photographed any of the engines along the @NYMR this week why not show us your favourites photos 👇

Book your tickets for services from 1st - 14th August
👉 https://t.co/1GSBN89lfX

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

@MrTimDunn If only. 🤔🤔🤔

[Bluebell Railway @bluebellrailway]

Looking for a unique Christmas present?

Well look no further - our Footplate Taster Experiences 2020 are now on sale! https://t.co/15XYYiTYqY

[Richard Clare @RichardClare01]

Wonderful news. I last travelled on the footplate in Australia during the Bicentenary in 1988.

[Talyllyn Railway @TalyllynRailway]

Our Footplate and Driver Experiences are now available to Buy Online - treat yourself or your loved one to the journey of a lifetime on the World's First Preserved Railway

Prices start from £75

https://t.co/6hfwYmiHg2

[Chris Tarrant Extreme Railways @ExtremeRailways]

New Series starts Monday 2nd December 9pm Channel 5 - four new episodes starting with Transylvania #extremerailwayjourneys #christarrant

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

@CopleyHill @ClanLine28 @Lord_Sugar Thanks for confirming, Simon! #ClanLine28 👍👍

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

@CopleyHill @ClanLine28 @Lord_Sugar My son kept telling me that it had the ‘wrong whistle’ on the Apprentice show earlier this week. 🤔🤔

Is he right?? Expert needed!

[South Tynedale Railw @strps_rail]

Have you booked your place for our family volunteer day on Sunday 7th July yet? Experience what it's like to be a train driver, guard, or signaller. Suitable for families with children aged 9 or over and it's free! Phone [phone] to book or find out more.

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

Who’d like a cool t to celebrate riding a steam or diesel footplate?? Tweet your best ‘footplate ride’ themed picture in reply by 4 July and we’ll pick the best! We will send the winner a t-shirt in their size as modelled by JB! #footplate #steam #diesel please retweet 👍👍

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

That’s the best so far!!! 👍👍

[Footplate Experience @FootplateExp]

Who’d like a cool t to celebrate riding a steam or diesel footplate?? Tweet your best ‘footplate ride’ themed picture in reply by 4 July and we’ll pick the best! We will send the winner a t-shirt in their size as modelled by JB! #footplate #steam #diesel please retweet 👍👍

[North Yorkshire Moors Railway @nymr]

Experience the workhorses of Britain’s railways with a footplate ride in a cab of a heritage Diesel locomotive/Diesel Multiple Unit. Find out more: https://t.co/tK9HVoYjit

Pic: Paul Scrimshaw

[David Russell @DavidTruro]

Terrific footplate ride on Braveheart ⁦⁦⁦⁦@dartmouthrail⁩