Looking for More Investment for Dasher
A PLAN to bring rail passenger services between Stourbridge to Brierley Hill is on the lookout for funding opportunities. If given the...
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rodneypitt9
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Combe Rail on Track for Tawlink
Dave Griffin, North Devon Gazette Combe Rail trustees Barry Hodgson, David Luggar and John Burch with plans for the proposed Tarka Trail...
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rodneypitt9
- Jul 30, 2021
- 2 min
Grant Shapps Calls a Halt to Railway Heritage Vandalism
Victorian railway bridges that were due to be filled in with concrete in an act previously decried as “cultural vandalism” will be...
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rodneypitt9
- Jul 30, 2021
- 2 min
Talyllyn Railway is part of world heritage site in North Wales
The celebratory train (Barbara Fuller) Talyllyn Railway put on a special slate train to celebrate the announcement that the Slate...
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rodneypitt9
- Jul 20, 2021
- 3 min
Broad support for heritage steam exemption in the Lords’ Environment Bill debate
Members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage Railways during their historic visit to the Welshpool & Llanfair Railway as they...
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rodneypitt9
- Jul 15, 2021
- 2 min
Mini steam train event in Swanage for August bank holiday
SWANAGE Railway volunteers are set to stage a nostalgic 'Roads to Rail' mini-steam rally. The event, scheduled for a field next to Norden...
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rodneypitt9
- Jul 12, 2021
- 3 min
Llangollen Railway Back on Track!
Guard John Doyle shows the green flag to driver Graham Parkin for the 11am departure. According to a report in the Oswestry & Border...
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rodneypitt9
- Jul 9, 2021
- 3 min
Network Rail Purchases Okehampton Line and Station
Another ‘key’ milestone in reopening the Dartmoor Line has been reached with the completion of the purchase of the railway and Okehampton...
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rodneypitt9
- Jul 8, 2021
- 2 min
£67MILLION PROJECT COULD SEE RAILWAY EXTENDED FROM SANDOWN TO NEWPORT
One of the new trains now running on the Island Line The Island Line could be extended from Sandown to Newport at an initial cost of...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 22, 2021
- 2 min
Studying the Coanda effect
As part of the continued application of modern techniques in the design and development of the improved class P2, The A1 Steam Locomotive...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
3D Printing to aid P2 construction
Since Christmas 2020 the project’s engineering team have been working with WMG to create a one-third scale working model of the cambox...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 22, 2021
- 3 min
Initial bio-coal trials show promise as HRA member railway takes the lead.
Heritage Railway Association member, the Bure Valley Railway has held the most extensive trials of bio– coal on a heritage steam line in...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 22, 2021
- 1 min
GWR steam locomotive 4144 arrives at the Nene Valley Railway
The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) has announced that Great Western Railway (GWR) 5101 Class No.4144 has arrived at their heritage line on...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 21, 2021
- 2 min
TfW says goodbye to last Pacer trains
Transport for Wales has said goodbye to the last Pacer trains after more than 30 years of service, marking the end of an era for...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 1, 2021
- 2 min
Historic Oxfordshire railway bridge set for new lease of life
A deteriorating Nineteenth Century railway bridge in Oxfordshire is to be restored to its former glory as part of a renovation project...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 1, 2021
- 1 min
Casting new Wheels!
The Churchward County Trust (CCT) has announced that the first set of coupled wheels have been cast for new build Great Western Railway...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 1, 2021
- 3 min
£250,000 major refurbishment at world’s largest operating mechanical signal box
The largest operational mechanical signal box in the world has just had its biggest refurbishment in more than a decade with work on the...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 1, 2021
- 2 min
Swanage Railway's new innovative £223k system
Constantly updated live train information has come to the Swanage Railway in a first for a preserved railway – thanks to a grant from the...
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rodneypitt9
- Jun 1, 2021
- 2 min
May update on GWR steam locomotive 3850 at Toddington
The ongoing 10-year overhaul of GWR heavy freight, 2-8-0, No. 3850 at Toddington on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway, has,...
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rodneypitt9
- May 11, 2021
- 3 min
GWSR volunteers take occupation of ‘The Goods Shed’
(Ian Crowder/GWSR) Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR) volunteers have taken occupation of a new welfare building, which is...
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