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  • Black Friday: Six issues of The Railway Magazine for only £15!

    Black Friday: Six issues of The Railway Magazine for only £15!

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    Bag a Black Friday bargain and get six issues of Britain’s best-selling rail title, The Railway Magazine, for only £15! That’s nearly half-price off the cover price!

  • Something ‘Wightwick’ this way comes as Bosworth line celebrates 50 golden years

    Something ‘Wightwick’ this way comes as Bosworth line celebrates 50 golden years

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    “OVERWHELMED” and “speechless” were just two of the words used by Battlefield Line director Adrian Lock to describe the success of the Leicestershire line’s 50th anniversary gala on October 18-20. The Shackerstone Railway Society had wanted to mark its five decades of operations at Shackerstone with something special, and this it achieved by securing ‘Modified…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Class 195 roll-out continues – but ‘Pacers’ will run into 2020

    Class 195 roll-out continues – but ‘Pacers’ will run into 2020

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    DELIVERIES of new DMUs and EMUs to Northern by CAF are running late, although the company introduced a further nine Class 195s over the Calder Valley line between Leeds and Chester via Manchester and Warrington in October.  It takes the number of ‘195s’ in traffic to 29, exactly half the order.  Northern has said because…

  • ScotRail Class 153 cycle conversions underway

    ScotRail Class 153 cycle conversions underway

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    WORK on the first of five Class 153 units to be converted for use by ScotRail on the West Highland line has begun at Brodies in Kilmarnock.  Under ScotRail’s plan, these designated carriages, with space for cycles and large sporting equipment, as well as additional seating, will be used with the Class 156 units that…

  • LMS Black 5 No. 45305 set for Great Central gala

    LMS Black 5 No. 45305 set for Great Central gala

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    Great Central Railway has announced that LMS Black 5 No. 45305 will return to steam at their Last Hurrah gala on November 16.

  • Must-read railway bookazines from just £5!

    Must-read railway bookazines from just £5!

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    Bookazines from Mortons Media, publisher of popular railway magazines, tell you everything you need to know about the history of the UK’s railways and locomotives.

  • Must-read railway bookazines from just £5!

    Must-read railway bookazines from just £5!

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    Bookazines from Mortons Media, publisher of popular railway magazines, tell you everything you need to know about the history of the UK’s railways and locomotives.

  • Antique violin worth £250,000 left on train in London

    Antique violin worth £250,000 left on train in London

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    A professional musician has said it was “devastating” to lose his antique violin worth £250,000 after he left it on a train.


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