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Vandals ordered to pay compensation to model railway club
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Three teenagers have been sentenced after a model railway exhibition was destroyed at a school in Stamford, Lincolnshire.
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GWR sheds make way for Old Oak Common hub
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Demolition of former Great Western Railway sheds at Old Oak Common, in west London, was completed in July.
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West Highland Line re-opens after flooding
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Network Rail has announced that the West Highland Line has fully re-opened for start of service today, after repair works finished following flash floods.
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Lakeside’s Barclay steals the show at Foxfield gala
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VISITING Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T No. 14 (1245/1911) certainly stole the show at the Foxfield Railway’s Summer Gala on July 20-21, recalling the heyday of the Scottish coalfields when these big Barclay tanks were a common sight on coal trains. The former Carron Iron Company loco had made the journey to Staffordshire from its home at…
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Preserving Britain’s railway heritage
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As long ago as 1845 Benjamin Disraeli wrote in his novel Sybil: ‘The railways will do as much for mankind as the monasteries did’
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Snowdon Mountain Railway invests in future with new hybrid diesel locomotives
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Snowdon Mountain Railway has begun a programme of replacement for its existing diesel locomotives which began service in 1985.
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British railways still Europe’s safest – but SPAD risk rises
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The RSSB annual health and safety report for 2018/19 confirms Britain’s place as the safest of the European Union’s 10 biggest railway networks.
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Stadler Class 755s into service as Greater Anglia ‘745s’ gain approval
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The first of 38 new Class 755 bi-mode multiple units ordered by Greater Anglia entered service on July 29.
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Variety is spice of life at Talyllyn…
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TALYLLYN Railway’s (TR) June 15 Anything Goes gala lived up to its billing with a variety of operations encompassing steam-hauled freight trains, diesel-hauled passenger operations, and a car travelling up the line aboard a wagon! Highlights amid conventional service trains included works diesel Hunslet 0-4-0DM No. 9 Alf hauling a vintage train of three original TR…
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Historic stations: Bath Green Park Some myths dispelled!
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In the June 1980 issue of The Railway Magazine, Mike Arlett recalled the history of The Midland Station at Bath (renamed by BR as Bath Green Park in June 1951). All these years later it is apparent there still remains some confusion as to the date the station opened and the alleged existence of a…
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