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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...
rodneypitt9
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Nov 11, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jul 30, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jul 30, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jul 20, 20213 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jul 15, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jul 12, 20213 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jul 9, 20213 min read
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£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...
rodneypitt9
Jul 8, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 22, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 22, 20213 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 22, 20213 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 22, 20211 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 21, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 1, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 1, 20211 min read
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£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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 1, 20213 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
Jun 1, 20212 min read
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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,...
rodneypitt9
Jun 1, 20212 min read
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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...
rodneypitt9
May 11, 20213 min read
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