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  • Bachmann Collectors Club launches new Limited Edition models during Members Day 2022

    Bachmann Collectors Club launches new Limited Edition models during Members Day 2022

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    After an enforced hiatus the annual Bachmann Collectors Club Members Day made a welcome return today when the 2022 event was held at the Dean Forest Railway. Last taking place at the Llangollen Railway in 2019, the popular event – which offers Club members a free day out including train rides, lunch and behind the…

  • Mid-Norfolk Railway restructures its leadership team

    Mid-Norfolk Railway restructures its leadership team

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    The management of the Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) is to be restructured with new arrangements to be put in place for the beginning of 2023. As part of the plan, the post of general manager is to be made redundant on December 31. The Trust Council of the Mid-Norfolk Railway Preservation Trust, which operates the line,…

  • Explore London Transport Museum after dark at these upcoming Friday Lates

    Explore London Transport Museum after dark at these upcoming Friday Lates

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    London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is opening its doors after dark for two final Friday Lates this year.

  • Elizabeth line’s Bond Street station to open next month

    Elizabeth line’s Bond Street station to open next month

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    Bond Street station on London’s Elizabeth line will open on Monday October 24, Transport for London has announced.

  • Engineers to join railway workers on strike

    Engineers to join railway workers on strike

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    Engineers are to join thousands of railway workers on strike in the latest outbreak of industrial unrest sweeping the country.

  • The East Lancashire Line

    The East Lancashire Line

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    Author and prolific photographer Martyn Hilbert presents a profile of the 29-mile Preston to Colne line in the heart of East Lancashire, highlighting its services, stations, and prominent structures, in words and pictures.

  • Francis Bourgeois visits an incredible model railway!

    Francis Bourgeois visits an incredible model railway!

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    Francis Bourgeois, a railway and trainspotting enthusiast in his 20s, was invited to view an amazing model railway layout, created by Mike.

  • Stanier’s super smoothie – the Turbomotive

    Stanier’s super smoothie – the Turbomotive

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    Hornby’s decision to recreate in OO scale some of Britain’s most famous one-off locomotives, including Gresley’s W1 4-6-4 and now Stanier’s geared turbine Pacific No. 6202, leads Pete Kelly to chart the history of the Turbomotive, with the help of some interesting archive photographs.

  • London Transport Museum launches new London Underground S stock models

    London Transport Museum launches new London Underground S stock models

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    London Transport Museum is launching a brand new 1:76 (OO) scale London Underground S stock model train produced exclusively for the Museum by Bachmann Europe.

  • Behind the scenes of this magical Lego Hogwarts Express photography

    Behind the scenes of this magical Lego Hogwarts Express photography

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    A Hungary-based toy photographer took on his largest project yet with this Lego Hogwarts Express train set, and the photographs are magical!


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