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  • Grant support for Bodmin platform

    Grant support for Bodmin platform

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    THE Bodmin & Wenford Railway’s (B&WR) proposal to install a second platform at its Bodmin General headquarters has received a huge financial boost from main line operator GWR. The Bodmin & Wenford Railway Trust’s £295,000 Second Platform Project has received a joint award totalling £141,000 from GWR’s Customer and Communities Improvement Fund, together with match…

  • Major lottery award for North Yorkshire Moors

    Major lottery award for North Yorkshire Moors

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    THE North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s (NYMR) £9.7million Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey (YMJ) project has been successful in its bid for Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) support. The HLF cash award of £4.436m is one of the largest awarded to a preserved railway, and will allow the NYMR to start work on the various strands of a five-year…

  • THE IVO PETERS COLLECTION – VOLUME 4 RAILWAY ARCHIVE: NORTH WALES NARROW GAUGE STEAM 1959-1960

    THE IVO PETERS COLLECTION – VOLUME 4 RAILWAY ARCHIVE: NORTH WALES NARROW GAUGE STEAM 1959-1960

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    THIS is the latest DVD from the Ivo Peters Railway Archive Collection. Volume 4 features North Wales Narrow Gauge Steam, recorded on high quality 16mm colour film, from nearly 60 years ago.  Though the programme was originally released on VHS in 1988 the material has been totally re-mastered for DVD.  And what a fascinating feast…

  • JULY ISSUE ON SALE NOW!

    JULY ISSUE ON SALE NOW!

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    HS2 unveiled! Azumas start work! Crowds flock to Crewe! The latest issue of Rail Express is packed with modern traction news, nostalgia and modelling.

  • Watercress Line Urie S15 No. 506 relaunched into traffic!

    Watercress Line Urie S15 No. 506 relaunched into traffic!

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    There were scenes of elation at the Mid-Hants Railway’s Alresford station on Sunday, June 2, when the Urie Locomotive Society (ULS) relaunched one of its two Urie S15s, No. 506, following an 18-year overhaul.

  • Union threatens further action on fourth day of rail strike

    Union threatens further action on fourth day of rail strike

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    Rail workers were said to be “solidly supporting” the fourth day of strikes in a bitter dispute over guards on trains.

  • From the archive: Golden Jubilee

    From the archive: Golden Jubilee

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    50 years ago, the last regular expresses hauled by pre-Nationalisation express steam engines ended; the LMS Jubilee’s last regular turns being on the Settle & Carlisle line. It was 13 years before the line saw the return of a Jubilee… but 50 years on from the withdrawal of the last three of the class, this…

  • Beamish Museum tram fleet line-up in unusual photo shoot

    Beamish Museum tram fleet line-up in unusual photo shoot

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    The parade was arranged in order to take a new crop of promotional photographs for use in future publicity material.

  • Retaining heritage skills for the future

    Retaining heritage skills for the future

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    In our latest visit to the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), The Railway Magazine meets its youngest apprentice.

  • A railway in BARBADOS AGAIN

    A railway in BARBADOS AGAIN

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    The tiny independent nation of Barbados has an operating railway once more after a gap of more than 80 years. Keith Fender and Glen Beadon look at the Caribbean island’s troubled railway history and the development of the latest venture.  BARBADOS’ first female Prime Minister, the Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, opened a rebuilt railway on the…


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