First attempt Sharpness Berkeley Railway Ltd (Company No. 07166656) intended to re-open the line as a heritage railway, using the trading names "Berkeley Vale Railway" and "The Beaver Line". Freight trains serving the Berkeley and Oldbury nuclear power stations would continue to be operated by Direct Rail Services. Rolling stock from the Stratford on Avon and Broadway Railway was expected to be used but this plan had been dropped. In March 2011, site clearance at Sharpness was carried out by members of the Proactive Vision community group, which had obtained a lease of part of the line from Network Rail. Tracklaying began in January 2012. Sharpness Berkeley Railway Ltd, Company No. 07166656, was dissolved on 12 June 2012. Second attempt On 24 August 2015, a new group, now known as the Vale of Berkeley Railway Trust, announced its intention to restore the branch as a heritage railway, along with the announcement that it had secured a lease on the former diesel shed at Sharpness Docks with the nearby Canal & River Trust. It has restored the shed to carry out restorations of its rolling stock and now has a fully functional machine shop, where it undertakes work for the railway project as well as external contract work for companies such as Bombardier. It has a number of active restoration projects, for which new volunteers are always welcome. The VoBR now has 3 active work sites: at Sharpness Docks where the main engineering base is located, the derelict sidings known as Oldminster Sidings where a lease has been granted by Network Rail to build a storage and maintenance depot for the railway. The site has been cleared ready for track relaying and work on developing the site and building a shed and other facilities is expected to start in early 2021. At Berkeley station, some of the station site has been cleared, the foundations of the old station building have been uncovered and a regular team of volunteers meet there to work each Wednesday./ October 2019 announcement On 22 October 2019, Stroud District Council announced a draft plan to build a railway station in Sharpness, to support housebuilding plans. A bid to reopen the Sharpness branch line as a tourist heritage line (VoBR), and later upgrading the line to public passenger services to serve the locality, was submitted in the third round of the Government's 'Restoring Your Railway' Ideas Fund in