Last year, Great Western Railway staged an open day at Long Rock depot, Penzance in April, raising money for the Penlee Lifeboat station and the RNLI.
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Category: Freight
What happened at London Euston?
Passengers travelling to and from London will have noticed and been impacted by delays and cancellations over the past few days.
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MoD traffic returns to Mid-Norfolk Railway for first time since 2009
The Mid-Norfolk Railway welcomed the return of military freight traffic last week to its Wymondham to Dereham heritage line.
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Holocaust Memorial Day: 75 years since liberation of Auschwitz camp
The darkest episode in the history of world railways undoubtedly centres around the role they were forced to play in the transport of civilians to Nazi death camps during the Second World War.
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Canadian National celebrates centenary
CANADA’s largest rail operator – Canadian National (CN) – celebrated its centenary in 2019 and gave some of its locos a special ‘CN100’ livery. Here,
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Construction traffic boom keeps UK railfreight stable
A FIVE per cent increase in construction traffic took the sector to its highest quarterly volume in the first three months of 2019/20, according to
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Five things you may not know about British Rail freight
Here’s a few things you may not have known about British Rail freight…
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Order Your Copy of The Changing Face of Railfreight
The Changing Face of Railfreight looks back over this period to chart both the physical changes to the network and the organisational changes which have had such an impact on this vital aspect of Britain’s rail network.
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Leighton Buzzard Railway: 100 not out
Cliff Thomas reports on a rare heritage anniversary – a 2ft-gauge railway that has operated continuously for a century. THE Leighton Buzzard Railway (LBR) will
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Classic stations: Newcastle Central
Newcastle Central is a listed building, the city’s major transport hub, and acts as both a terminus and a through station. Graeme Pickering recalls the
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