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  • Tube staff ready to take industrial action over assaults on London Underground

    Tube staff ready to take industrial action over assaults on London Underground

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    Violent assaults on London Underground workers are increasing, according to a union, prompting warnings that industrial action could be stepped up.

  • Bundoran Junction station on the market for under £200k

    Bundoran Junction station on the market for under £200k

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    ONE of Northern Ireland’s best-known former stations has been put up for sale, opening up the opportunity to own a real piece of Irish railway history. Bundoran Junction, in Kilskeery, Co Tyrone, was a popular interchange on the Great Northern Railway’s (GNR(I)) Irish Northwest line between Enniskillen and Omagh. It was originally opened by the…

  • Whitwell & Reepham ‘Thursday Gang’ nears end of Agecroft No. 3 restoration

    Whitwell & Reepham ‘Thursday Gang’ nears end of Agecroft No. 3 restoration

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    ROBERT Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-4-0ST Agecroft No. 3 (7681/1951) is in the final stages of restoration at Whitwell & Reepham Station in Norfolk. The locomotive is one of a trio that worked at Agecroft power station, near Manchester, until September 1981, and has been the subject of a ‘nut-and-bolt’ restoration by three Whitwell volunteers known as…

  • Cheltenham ‘resplendent’ in BR lined green at Mid-Hants Railway

    Cheltenham ‘resplendent’ in BR lined green at Mid-Hants Railway

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    ‘SCHOOLS’ class 4-4-0 Cheltenham has emerged from the Mid-Hants Railway’s (MHR) Ropley workshops as No. 30925, resplendent in British Railways’ lined green. The repaint of the National Railway Museum locomotive was completed by Heritage Painting with assistance from MHR volunteers, transforming it from Southern Railway malachite green into the guise the loco carried during its final…

  • Five things you might not know about King’s Cross station

    Five things you might not know about King’s Cross station

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    King’s Cross station’s historical and cultural fame have made this hub popular worldwide.

  • New dome completes 22-year restoration of Nancy at Dromod

    New dome completes 22-year restoration of Nancy at Dromod

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    THE restoration of the Cavan & Leitrim Railway’s Avonside 0-6-0T Nancy is officially complete after 22 years’ work and £160,000 investment.  The former ironstone loco returned to steam at Alan Keef’s Ross-on-Wye workshops in March, but was delivered to Dromod without its brass dome cover as this was still being manufactured by The Dorset Copperfish. …

  • Fundraising success sees Wheldale overhaul begin

    Fundraising success sees Wheldale overhaul begin

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    ONE of the last steam locomotives to work commercially in the UK – Hunslet ‘Austerity’ 0-6-0ST No. S134 Wheldale – is on the steam comeback thanks to the fundraising efforts of the locomotive’s support group. The Friends of Wheldale has raised in excess of £130,000 towards the cost of overhauling the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway…

  • Overhauled ‘S160’ and ‘S15’ begin running-in at NYMR

    Overhauled ‘S160’ and ‘S15’ begin running-in at NYMR

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    RUNNING-IN of two North Yorkshire Moors Railway-based locomotives is underway following the completion of their respective overhauls.  Peter Best’s former United States Army Transport Corps ‘S160’ 2-8-0 No. 2253 Omaha began the process of testing and acceptance on July 30, just two weeks after making its first independent post-overhaul movements on July 17. As might be…

  • Hagley Hall edges closer to Severn Valley comeback

    Hagley Hall edges closer to Severn Valley comeback

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    WORK on the overhaul of Severn Valley Railway flagship ‘Hall’ No. 4930 Hagley Hall has progressed to the ‘detail’ stage. This means the focus has turned away from the larger components to the refurbishment and replacement of the myriad smaller, vital parts. The bogie is currently on trollies for overhaul and examination, the horns receiving attention…

  • UK Innovation Centre to be established for the world-wide rail industry

    UK Innovation Centre to be established for the world-wide rail industry

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    A new UK-based Innovation Centre will transform how wheelsets and tracks are approached, developed and maintained in the rail industry.


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