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  • Returning to Amberley after 30 years…

    Returning to Amberley after 30 years…

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    Mark Smithers first visited the Amberley museum in 1987, and returned to the railway for its recent gala to review nearly 30 years of progress.  Following Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre’s summer gala in 1987, I wrote a feature covering what had been achieved during the first five years of railway preservation at this Sussex-based…

  • Father and son track-engineers help keep railway running safely

    Father and son track-engineers help keep railway running safely

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    Railway upgrades by a father-and-son duo are today helping keep critical supplies and key workers moving across Britain.

  • Train refurbishment firm’s closure plan puts about 100 jobs at risk, union claims

    Train refurbishment firm’s closure plan puts about 100 jobs at risk, union claims

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    Around 100 jobs are under threat with the proposed closure of a train carriage refurbishment firm in East Ayrshire, a union has said.

  • Hull Trains suspends ALL services

    Hull Trains suspends ALL services

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    Hull Trains has taken the decision in what it calls ‘unprecedented circumstances surrounding the coronavirus pandemic’ to temporarily suspend all train services from 00.01 on March 30 to safeguard the future of the business.

  • Network Rail supports army to deliver vital medical face masks to NHS frontline

    Network Rail supports army to deliver vital medical face masks to NHS frontline

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    Railway workers have driven hundreds of miles through the night to deliver two lorry loads of protective medical face masks for frontline workers in the NHS.

  • UK railway news roundup

    UK railway news roundup

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    The coronavirus situation continues to cause chaos in the rail and transport industry as the UK faces lockdown. Services are slashed as demand collapses, social distancing measures are firmly in place and more events and runnings are postponed. Here’s this week’s roundup:

  • Mortons Books launch brand new book catalogue brimming with new titles

    Mortons Books launch brand new book catalogue brimming with new titles

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    The people who bring you The Railway Magazine, Heritage Railway and Rail Express have just launched their latest book catalogue – brimming with fantastic new titles to explore while you’re stuck at home.

  • Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways in emergency appeal

    Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways in emergency appeal

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    The general manager of Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways is urgently appealing for public help, after the railway closes amid the coronavirus situation.

  • Blackpool trams to be suspended from Sunday

    Blackpool trams to be suspended from Sunday

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    Blackpool Transport has announced it is to temporarily suspend all tram services from Sunday, March 29 until further notice due to the ongoing Coronavirus situation.

  • Coronavirus: Police on rail patrol to urge passengers to only make essential journeys

    Coronavirus: Police on rail patrol to urge passengers to only make essential journeys

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    Five hundred British Transport Police officers patrolled the railway network yesterday to remind passengers that only essential travel is permitted after the UK was placed under lockdown.


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