Restoration/Preservation

Nov 11, 20212 min read

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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Nov 11, 20212 min read

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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Grant Shapps Calls a Halt to Railway Heritage Vandalism

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Jul 30, 20212 min read

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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Talyllyn Railway is part of world heritage site in North Wales

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Jul 30, 20212 min read

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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Broad support for heritage steam exemption in the Lords’ Environment Bill debate

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Jul 20, 20213 min read

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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Mini steam train event in Swanage for August bank holiday

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Jul 15, 20212 min read

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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Jul 12, 20213 min read

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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Network Rail Purchases Okehampton Line and Station

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Jul 9, 20213 min read

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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£67MILLION PROJECT COULD SEE RAILWAY EXTENDED FROM SANDOWN TO NEWPORT

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Jul 8, 20212 min read

£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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Jun 22, 20212 min read

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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Jun 22, 20213 min read

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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Jun 22, 20213 min read

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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GWR steam locomotive 4144 arrives at the Nene Valley Railway

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Jun 22, 20211 min read

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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Jun 21, 20212 min read

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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Historic Oxfordshire railway bridge set for new lease of life

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Jun 1, 20212 min read

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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Jun 1, 20211 min read

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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£250,000 major refurbishment at world’s largest operating mechanical signal box

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Jun 1, 20213 min read

£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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Swanage Railway's new innovative £223k system

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Jun 1, 20212 min read

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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May update on GWR steam locomotive 3850 at Toddington

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Jun 1, 20212 min read

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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GWSR volunteers take occupation of ‘The Goods Shed’

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May 11, 20213 min read

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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