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  • £300m to improve access at 73 stations

    £300m to improve access at 73 stations

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    73 stations are sharing a £300million Government cash injection to improve access for all passengers.

  • Shotts line £160m wiring work completed on time

    Shotts line £160m wiring work completed on time

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    THE £160million project to electrify a fifth route between Edinburgh and Glasgow has been completed on time and on budget.  The electrification project has been undertaken to cater for projected growth in passenger numbers from towns such as Livingston and West Calder into Edinburgh in the east and from Cleland and Shotts into Glasgow in…

  • Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular

    Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular

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    Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society runs rail tours around the busy rail-served complex of British Steel’s Scunthorpe steelworks on selected summer weekends.

  • Semaphore swansong at Reedham Junction

    Semaphore swansong at Reedham Junction

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    REEDHAM Junction signalbox in Norfolk, along with its numerous semaphore signals, was decommissioned after the last train passed on the evening of March 22, reports Richard Horner. Its abolition took place ahead of a nine-day engineering possession during which further extensive works were carried out at Reedham, Cantley and Brundall under Network Rail’s Norwich, Yarmouth…

  • Embsay’s world first: The second dawn of modern traction

    Embsay’s world first: The second dawn of modern traction

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    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.

  • Contrasting locos debut at Norwich club track

    Contrasting locos debut at Norwich club track

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    The builder is unknown, but it is possibly of pre-Second World War origin.

  • South Downs Light Railway preparing for another busy season

    South Downs Light Railway preparing for another busy season

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    There are two annual enthusiast events – the steam gala on May 25-27 and visiting locos weekend, September 28-29.

  • Stradbally’s Bord na Móna Barclay named Róisín

    Stradbally’s Bord na Móna Barclay named Róisín

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    It’s the first time in its history the locomotive has carried a name.

  • ‘Brexit Express’ Nancy returns to steam and heads for Ireland

    ‘Brexit Express’ Nancy returns to steam and heads for Ireland

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    Restoration to steam of ex-Eastwell Iron Ore Quarries 3ft-gauge Avonside 0-6-0T Nancy (1547/1908) has been completed.

  • Strangers in town

    Strangers in town

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    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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