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Issue 254 of Heritage Railway magazine OUT NOW!
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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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Telly alert – Moors on Channel 5
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Channel 5’s television programme about the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) will air on Friday, May 17 at 8pm. Season two of ‘The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard’ will include six episodes, which will go behind the scenes of the NYMR, meeting the staff and volunteers that keep the railway on track. Episode one sees…
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Your Gallery | No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland
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Alan Corfield sent in this superb picture of No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland.
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Rare shunter ‘haulage’ at Nene Valley June 1-2 model weekend
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Visitors to the Nene Valley Railway’s June 1-2 model railway weekend will be able to ride behind former London Underground Sentinel 0-6-0 DL83.
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Industrial Locomotives & Railways of the North East
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By Gordon Edgar GORDON Edgar’s series exploring the nation’s industrial railways and systems of Britain continues with this latest volume focusing on the region often credited as being the cradle of the railways over the past 60 years. In industrial railway terms Teeside, County Durham and Northumberland had a bit of everything, from ports to…
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‘Caley’ tank ups and downs: It’s a success in Swanage but fails at North Norfolk
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CALEDONIAN Railway 0-4-4T No. 419 suffered mixed fortunes during late-March/early-April, having proved a big hit at the Swanage Railway’s March 29-31 Spring Steam Up, but missing out on much of the North Norfolk Railway’s gala the following weekend. The Swanage event coincided with the visit of ‘A3’ No. 60103 Flying Scotsman, and also featured Great…
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Terrier Trust launches £150,000 to fund parallel ‘A1X’ overhauls
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THE Terrier Trust, together with the Kent & East Sussex Railway (KESR), has launched a £150,000 appeal to overhaul the trust’s two London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LBSCR) ‘Terrier’ 0-6-0Ts – Nos. 3 Bodiam (BR No. 32670) and 32678. Income from the appeal, which has seen £15,000 injected each by the trust and railway,…
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Didcot formally launches ‘Saint’ Lady of Legend
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THE Great Western Society (GWS) marked the completion of its re-created Churchward ‘Saint’ in early April with a series of special commemorative events at Didcot Railway Centre. Supporters of the project were invited to a preview day on April 3 to see No. 2999 Lady of Legend in steam, with the opportunity to become among…
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6412 returning as WSR marks four decades of BL steam
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COLLETT ‘64XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 6412 will return to the railway it called home for 33 years next month when it takes part in the West Somerset Railway’s anniversary gala on June 8-9. The event will celebrate 40 years since trains started running to Bishops Lydeard on June 9, 1979, and aims to capture some of the…
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South Devon hits half century as first Dart Valley trains are remembered
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THE reopening of the Ashburton branch as the Dart Valley Railway in 1969 was commemorated during early April with a nine-day Golden Anniversary gala at the South Devon Railway (SDR). A combination of historic re-enactments and themed operating days, coupled with a cast of visiting and resident locomotives, provided a wealth of variety to the…
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