Any visitors wanting lineside access to any heritage railways please take note of the following.
Foot and Mouth disease is very efficiently transmitted on the soles of shoes and on vehicles. If you are visiting a lineside please do not under any circumstances enter fields, even arable or ploughed fields - wild deer can transport the virus from these to grassland where livestock graze. Avoid parking or reversing cars in field gateways. In short it is better to restrict lineside activity to public road bridges etc. This may sound extreme but try and think of this from the farmers point of view.