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Mar 25, 20213 min read
Jet Engine Snow Blowers
In 1947 First experiments were made using Jet Engines as a snow blower for the railways. The experiments were carried out at, Dowlais,...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 25, 20212 min read
Kemble to Cirencester Could Go Ahead!
Kemble station before 1905. The Cirencester branch is on the right Ambitious plans to re-open a railway line in Gloucestershire are...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 24, 20212 min read
Oxford to Witney railway: Call to protect 'future' route
Passenger trains ran between Oxford and Witney until 1962 (Ben Brookshank) A group campaigning to re-establish an Oxfordshire railway has...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 24, 20213 min read
Investment in Simulation and Reality at Plymouth
In the driver’s seat: Council leader Tudor Evans got a taste of life in the hot seat testing the new train driver simulator at Plymouth’s...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 24, 20212 min read
Rail Consultancy on Track for New Growth
Stratford-upon-Avon-based Fenix Rail Systems has secured investment to support the company as it bids for larger contracts. Fenix...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 19, 20211 min read
Funding to Protect Cornish Rock Falls
Plans to extend a rockfall shelter that will protect the only railway line into the south-west for the next 100 years, have today (Friday...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 19, 20213 min read
Government asked for Funding for Anglesey Railway Lines
The short branch leading away west from the disused line to Amlwch served the former Shell Oil Depot near Rhosgoch. (Ralph Rawlinson,...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 19, 20213 min read
Government's £40 million to reopen First Line under Restore Your Railway Scheme
The Okehampton to Exeter line is the first railway line to be reopened and "will quite literally lay the tracks to more jobs, tourism and...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 19, 20211 min read
New Bridge Will Take The Biscuit!
An historic railway bridge will be replaced this weekend by Network Rail to allow trains to run at full speed again. The Huntley and...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 19, 20212 min read
Bridge Over Troubled Waters To Be Raised
Network Rail engineers will be raising Black Bridge, near Machynlleth, by one metre to lift it out of the flood zone. This will protect...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 19, 20212 min read
Wolverhampton's new Station Complete
The main construction of Wolverhampton’s new railway station is set to be completed this week. It is part of the transformation taking...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 16, 20212 min read
Pick Up a Penguin!
Great Western Railway is strengthening its long affiliation with Penguin Books by teaming up for a competition to win copies of a...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 16, 20212 min read
Could Trains Return to Castle Bromwich?
Castle Bromwich as viewed from the top of the parish church and (inset) the plans referenced in Andy Street's blueprint for West Midlands...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Catching Up With Time at Great Malvern
Rail passengers at Great Malvern station are set to be right on time as renovations to a Victorian clock are now complete. The ornate...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Plea for Rail Link to Hospital to be Reinstated
Owen Paterson MP at the Park Hall Halt Transport minister Grant Shapps is being urged to fund a project to reopen a short stretch of...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 15, 20212 min read
Palfinger - Doing a Golden Job!
A Palfinger PCC 71.002 crawler-mounted knuckleboom crane is being used for the modernisation of Leipzig main train station in Germany....
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rodneypitt9
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Radstock regeneration : The rail bid is in, now it is just a wait to see if it can happen
The Radstock Mayor on the former Radstock line According to a report in the Radstock Nub News, plans are afoot to reinstate the railway...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 12, 20212 min read
Refurbished TfW Class 150s to enter service alongside Class 769s in Cardiff
More seats and improved trains are coming from Transport for Wales this month thanks to a £15m investment. The next Class 769 train has...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 12, 20212 min read
Four-Fold Increase for Flint Line
Train services will increase four-fold on a line dubbed the "Cinderella" route linking north Wales with Merseyside. Only one train an...
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rodneypitt9
Mar 12, 20211 min read
Where There's Hope...
A multimillion-pound upgrade to the Hope Valley railway line between Sheffield and Manchester has been announced by the government. The...
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