various sources, making a varied collection. Steam locomotives Internal combustion Carriages and wagons The line had six 'cars' when it opened in 1897. These were bogie carriages, long over their buffers with American-style open end platforms and both first and second class seating. They had been built by the Lancaster Railway Carriage and Wagon Company for the Argentine Republic Railway but the sale to that company was never completed. They were taken out of service in the early 1920s but three saw further use from 1937 until the line closed. An additional coach was later bought from the Great Central Railway, a small four-wheel vehicle used as a 'smoking car' during the summer. By 1913 it had been renumbered into the freight stock series and its underframe was stored in the siding at Wick St Lawrence. Seven former Metropolitan Railway four-wheel coaches were put into service in 1907, six of them close-coupled in pairs. The pairs were long. Coach number 7 has been restored to its Metropolitan Railway condition. A four-wheel Great Eastern Railway passenger brake van arrived in 1911 but was withdrawn in 1922. Three London and South Western Railway four-wheel coaches arrived in 1924 and were close-coupled as a set although sometimes ran without the centre coach. The final coach was a former Taff Vale Railway four-wheel coach which could be used on its own on quiet days. In 1901 there were only 2 freight wagons but by 1907 this had increased to 9 and another 9 arrived the following year. When the line closed there were 27 wagons in all. These were mostly former Midland Railway open wagons of between capacity but there was also a low machinery wagon, a box van and a goods brake van. The line today Due to the lack of major infrastructure, there are few obvious remains of the line. Still surviving is a small bridge over a rhyne in Portishead, the remains of a bridge over the River Yeo, and the wharf. Much of the route of the track bed survives, a small part of which can be walked on Weston Moor reserve in the Gordano Valley. There are plans to convert some of the track bed to a cycle path as part of the National Cycle Network. The WC&P Railway Group was formed in November 2006, to attempt to preserve what was left of the railway. References External links WC&P