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Welcome to the new Cravens Heritage Trains website, parent company of Locomotive L11 and
Epping Signal Cabin
This is the new Cravens Heritage Trains (CHT) website and we hope you like the cleaner look. We have taken the opportunity to align this new CHT website with our existing Epping Signalling Museum (ESM) website to make navigation between the two easier. The Carriage Diagram at the top of each CHT page shows the destinations available. Click on the destination link of your choice.
Stops within Zone 1 all contain information on the various Cravens subjects whilst stops within Zone 2 relate to Epping Signalling Museum. Click a destination link within Zone 2 to go to the ESM page then click the 'Cravens' destination to return here. The AGM zone takes CHT Members to the sign-in page for the AGM on-line information. Enjoy your visit!
Cravens Preservation Group was formed in 1995 with the intention of preserving a 1960, three car Cravens-built ex London Transport tube train. By 1999, it was time to rename and formalise the group as Cravens Heritage Trains Limited (CHT). It was incorporated as a company with no shareholders and is constituted as a company limited by guarantee.
This photograph was taken on 9th June 2024 and shows the Cravens set had been moved to an inside road at West Ruislip. It was reported that the movement went without a hitch and all three cars rolled smoothly into the depot. It has retuned to an outside siding since.
Discussions have been going on apace behind the scenes with London Underground Limited as well as the Friends of London Transport Museum. Members of Cravens Heritage Trains received more details in their AGM pack and the whole topic was discussed at the AGM on 1st November.
If you're not already a CHT member, this could be a very good time to consider joining. See our email address below or use the 'Contact' destination at the top of the page.
We invite anyone who is interested in continuing the work of preserving some of the history of London Underground to become a member of Cravens Heritage Trains. The annual membership is a very modest £20 per annum and entitles you to vote at the AGM as well as allowing you to become a Volunteer at Epping and work on the Cravens Unit (subject to LU conditions of Depot Access). If you would like more details about how to join, please send an email to our usual address: eppingmuseum@gmail.com
CHT is the parent Company of Epping Signalling Museum, which has gone from strength to strength and now opens to the public as a museum of historical London Underground artefacts and exhibits, including a 'real' LU locomotive as well as a fully functioning 47 lever signal frame, signals, signage and a set of fully operational points.
Click one of the 'destinations' on the map at the top of this page to go to a chosen subject, or the arrow below to go to the Epping Signalling Museum
© 2025 Peter Scouse, Cravens Heritage Trains Ltd.
