Railcar Day was added to the Middleton Railway's 2004 calendar to mark the completion of the restoration of Wickham Railbus DB999507 by its owner, Graham Parkin, and its formal entry into passenger service.

The formal launch took place at 12.15 with speeches by Ian Smith (Middleton Railway) and Murray Brown (Editor, Rail Express Magazine), following which invited guests and representatives of Middleton Railway travelled on the Wickham to Park Halt and back.

A regular service was then operated for members of the public with trains worked alternately by the Wickham Railbus DB999507 and the EM2 Locomotive Society's former overhead line inspection vehicle, Drewry car DB998901 OLIV.  All trains went down the Railway's Balm Road Branch and, as a bonus, the last two trains of the day also traversed the loops at Moor Road, Balm Road and Park Halt.

The following pictures of the event were taken by Howard Bishop....