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  • Creating a corner of ‘Dava’

    Creating a corner of ‘Dava’

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    Most of Ian Lamb’s railway modelling has been undertaken in order to encourage young people to take up the hobby and thus ensure the passing-on of skills.

  • Vandalised model railway to go on show for first time since attack

    Vandalised model railway to go on show for first time since attack

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    The Market Deeping Model Railway Club, which was brutally destroyed by youth vandals in May, is to go on show for the first time at Warley.

  • UK railway news round-up

    UK railway news round-up

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    The Railway Hub’s weekly round-up of the latest railway news. Here are this week’s top stories…

  • Reversing Beeching cuts “would cost far more” than £500 million pledge

    Reversing Beeching cuts “would cost far more” than £500 million pledge

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    A £500 million fund pledged by the Conservatives to restore rail lines axed in the Beeching cuts “is not going to buy you very much”, a rail expert warns.

  • Delays after Azuma train crashes in Leeds depot

    Delays after Azuma train crashes in Leeds depot

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    Services between Lincoln and London have been delayed or cancelled after a “low-speed” crash between two trains at a depot in Leeds.

  • Eurostar marks 25th anniversary with first ‘plastic-free’ train

    Eurostar marks 25th anniversary with first ‘plastic-free’ train

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    Eurostar is operating a train with no single-use plastics to mark the 25th anniversary and will plant a tree for every service it runs.

  • The story of Dr Patrick Ransome-Wallis

    The story of Dr Patrick Ransome-Wallis

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    We are looking at the great railway writers and artists of the 20th century, Robert Humm records the life of photographer Pat Ransome-Wallis.

  • HS2 should go ahead despite costs hike, says review

    HS2 should go ahead despite costs hike, says review

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    A recommendation that HS2 should continue to be built in full despite soaring costs has been welcomed by political leaders in the North.

  • Flooding washes out Churnet Valley gala

    Flooding washes out Churnet Valley gala

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    IT WAS supposed to be a day of celebration, seeing three USATC ‘S160’ 2-8-0’s working together in the UK for the first time since 1944.  However, the Churnet Valley Railway’s (CVR) Super Power Saturday on October 26 ended in disaster after persistent rain flooded part of the lines and washed away another. The gala day…

  • Hitachi Class 802 enters service with TransPennine Express

    Hitachi Class 802 enters service with TransPennine Express

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    By Tony Miles THE first of 19 five-car Hitachi Class 802 bi-mode trains entered passenger service with TransPennine Express on September 28.  They had received clearance from ORR late the previous evening.  Set 802201 operated the 06.03 Newcastle-Liverpool Lime Street and 09.25 return as a one-off working ahead of regular service introduction later in October. …


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