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  • Glasgow Central’s ‘ghost platform’to become heritage museum

    Glasgow Central’s ‘ghost platform’to become heritage museum

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    A FORGOTTEN platform beneath Glasgow Central station may be developed into a railway heritage museum – complete with a steam train parked on a stretch of relaid track. The platform, which closed 55 years ago, dates from the opening of the station’s low-level section in 1896, when it operated as a separate entity to Glasgow…

  • Drumboe crowdfunding appeal launched on Valentine’s Day

    Drumboe crowdfunding appeal launched on Valentine’s Day

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    By Hugh Dougherty A €60,000 (£55,000) crowdfunding drive to bring County Donegal Railways 2-6-4T Drumboe back to Donegal Town was launched by County Donegal Railways Restoration Limited at Harvey’s Point Hotel on St Valentine’s Day. The hotel, situated near to the former Lough Eske station on the CDR’s Donegal-Stranorlar main line, is hosting a third-scale…

  • Help save North British tank for possible repatriation

    Help save North British tank for possible repatriation

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    AN appeal has been launched to save a North British 4-8-2T from being scrapped in South Africa – and maybe to return it to Britain for overhaul to working order. The North British Locomotion Preservation Group is offering £25 shares in 3ft 6in gauge No. 25916 of 1945, one of the last survivors of a…

  • Where 31 Jolly Runners beat the train along the Dart!

    Where 31 Jolly Runners beat the train along the Dart!

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    SUNDAY, February 17 saw Devon running business ‘Jolly Running’ host the inaugural ‘Beat the Train’ 12-kilometre race based at the South Devon Railway’s Totnes Riverside station. A special steam train park and ride service from Buckfastleigh was used by many of the runners to arrive by rail at the early morning event. On arrival at…

  • Search for contractor delays J21 locomotive overhaul start

    Search for contractor delays J21 locomotive overhaul start

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    The Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust continues to search for a contractor to carry out the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed overhaul of NER J21 0-6-0 No. 65033. LCLT chairman Toby Watkins said: “We’ve received formal permission from the HLF to start and the money is there, but we’ve been unable to select a contractor to overhaul…

  • Talyllyn Railway visitor numbers on the rise again

    Talyllyn Railway visitor numbers on the rise again

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    Passenger numbers on the Talyllyn Railway over the February half-term period were 50% up on the previous year.

  • South Devon Railway to mark 50 years with milestone steam gala

    South Devon Railway to mark 50 years with milestone steam gala

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    UPDATE | South Devon Railway announce the Hawksworth No. 1501 will cover the planned diagrams, replacing visiting locomotive 1450.

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  • Mid-Norfolk preparing to store Greater Anglia stock

    Mid-Norfolk preparing to store Greater Anglia stock

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    THE Mid-Norfolk Railway has completed track changes and the installation of five sidings in preparation to store rolling stock for Greater Anglia. The project is known as Operation Hedgehog.  A 1½-mile-long second track has been laid between Hardingham and Kimberley Park, along with five sidings just north of Kimberley Park. The work has been financed…


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