Hop aboard the Easter Express at the Swindon and Cricklade Railway.

The attraction is running the special services from Good Friday through to Easter Monday, including an egg hunt, train rides, a range of activities and a chocolate egg.

Tickets cost £10 (including an egg for children), £9 seniors and children under three travel free.

The event is one of a series planned for this year, including a diesel gala on April 15 and 16 and a family festival in August when the programme will feature traction engines, military vehicles, re-enactors and unlimited train rides.

And children's favourite Thomas is set to visit between August 26 and 28.

Among the attractions at Blunsdon Station is a museum housing a collection of railway artifacts and antiques from the GWR and the Midland and South Western Junction Railway, known as Swindon's Other Railway.

The railway is also the home of Swindon-built locomotive 5637 which spent its working life in South Wales before being mothballed in the 1960s and later rescued from the scrapyard at Barry. It was bought by a museum in Birmingham and in 1982 Thamesdown Borough Council bought it to use on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway line. Then in 1987 the Steam Locomotive Group bought it.

Diesel locos in the collection include the 60-year-old Sir Herbert Walker, a shunter that used to work at the Pressed Steel plant and a railbus that used to trundle along the line between Tetbury and Cirencester until it was closed in 1964.

Visit windon-cricklade-railway.org/product/easter-day-rover-ticket/ to book tickets.