Robin Jones
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Learning to save lives at the Severn Valley Railway
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St John Ambulance volunteers will visit the Severn Valley Railway on October 15 to raise awareness of cardiac arrests and the use of CPR and defibrillation to save lives.
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Valuation day this Sunday!
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Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury is the star valuer at a special railwayana valuation day.
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Santa train is coming to town!
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Steam into Christmas as the famously festive Santa Specials return to the East Lancashire Railway.
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Exclusive showing of wreckers film
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The organisers of the Cramlington Train Wreckers project have been given exclusive access to a 30-minute 1969 BBC film of interviews with the surviving four Northumberland miners who were imprisoned after accidentally derailing the Flying Scotsman during the 1926 General Strike.
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Brighton’s Electric Railway – The seaside line that sparked a transport revolution
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To the untrained eye, Brighton’s Volk’s Electric Railway may appear to be just another seaside tramway, a relic from the resort’s Victorian heyday. However, it is no less than Britain’s first electric railway, and the oldest in the world to be still running, and therefore of paramount international importance. Magnus Volk did not invent the…
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Great Beeching Survivors
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While banner-waving protestors who gathered outside stations on the last day of services on their local line may have felt that they were wasting their breath against a Government ‘one size fits all’ policy, that the consultation procedures were purely academic, and that the Labour government which pledged to reverse the cuts re-engaged on that…
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Cheers to the Great Central Beer Festival
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The Great Central Railway’s annual beer festival takes place over four days this week.
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Blue Peter boiler passes hydraulic test
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On August 21, the boiler for A2 Pacific No. 60532 Blue Peter passed a significant milestone in its overhaul when the boiler successfully passed a hydraulic test at Locomotive Services Group’s Crewe works.
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GWR’s starring role in railway TV series
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Michael Portillo visited the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway for the latest series of his Great British Railway Journeys TV documentary.
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Art on the line in Hampshire
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Talented artists are taking part in a novel new event on The Watercress Line this weekend
