Virgin Trains launch legal action against government over West Coast route
Virgin, Stagecoach and SNCF say that the Department for Transport breached its duties in barring them from tendering.
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Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway’s Top Train to run June 15
The Snowdonian Limited is the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railway’s Top Train.
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Embsay’s world first: The second dawn of modern traction
October 19, 2018, will be etched in history after the world’s first internal combustion-powered passenger vehicle gave its first rides in 88 years.
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Strangers in town
A prominent feature of the privatised railway is the rich variety of liveries and colours applied by individual train operators, often at great expense, to its rolling stock.
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Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular
Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society runs rail tours around the busy rail-served complex of British Steel’s Scunthorpe steelworks on selected summer weekends.
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Donations to Market Deeping Model Railway Club appeal soars to £100k
Market Deeping Model Railway Club lost years of work after intruders got into a school in Stamford on Saturday.
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June issue of Rail Express magazine out now!
Southern Legacy! The ‘Silver Queens’! Long Rock Open Day! The latest issue of Rail Express is packed with modern traction news, nostalgia and modelling.
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Issue 254 of Heritage Railway magazine OUT NOW!
West Somerset gets summer Taunton link! Manx Mannin to steam again! Help Great Central! Issue 254 of Heritage Railway magazine has got the lot!
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The Railway Magazine May 2019 out now
This issue has a free DVD, with all new content, which looks back 190 years to the Rainhill Trials.
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Issue 276 of Rail Express OUT NOW!
The latest issue of Rail Express is packed with modern traction news, nostalgia and modelling.
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