News
-
Network Rail protects Banksy’s Birmingham homelessness art
Posted
by
Network Rail has put a protective screen over the latest art work by world-famous street artist Banksy.
-
Train guards strike pauses for General Election Day
Posted
by
Rail workers involved in a lengthy series of strikes will go back to work for one day on General Election Day, but services will remain disrupted.
-
Happy campers as Royal Scot returns to Skegness – in steam!
Posted
by
LMS 4-6-0 No. 46100 Royal Scot, which owes its survival in 1962 to holiday camp magnate Sir Billy Butlin, is returning to the East Coast resort of Skegness next autumn after a 48-year absence – and for the first time in steam. The engine is making a special railtour visit on September 26, close to the…
-
Four centuries on… Mayflower to honour the Mayflower
Posted
by
DAVID Buck’s Thompson ‘B1’ 4-6-0 No. 61306 Mayflower will pay homage to the ship of the same name next September when it heads a commemorative railtour from London to Plymouth and Penzance to mark the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers to the Americas. Steam Dreams’ ‘Mayflower 400’ will leave London Paddington at…
-
Check before you travel: 20,000 staff to work on 380 rail projects over Christmas
Posted
by
Passengers “will benefit from a better, more reliable railway in 2020” according to Network Rail – with upgrades taking place over Christmas and New Year.
-
Avanti West Coast promises ‘big change’ for commuters
Posted
by
A “big change” in the quality of train carriages on the West Coast Main Line has been promised by a parent company of new operator Avanti West Coast.
-
UK railway news round-up
Posted
by
It’s been a busy week on the UK’s railways as the election race heats up. Labour and the Conservatives clash over the Tory pledge to spend £4.2 billion on a local public transport fund.
-
Hitachi to build 23 trains for Avanti West Coast in £350m contract
Posted
by
Hitachi has been awarded a £350 million contract to build 23 new trains for Avanti West Coast, the manufacturer has announced.
-
A Cumbrian Coast ‘Jubilee’
Posted
by
STANIER ‘Jubilee’ 4-6-0 No. 45690 Leander winds its way southbound along the Lakeland coast at St Bees with the return leg of the Railway Touring Company’s ‘Cumbrian Coast Express on September 28. The BR black-liveried ‘Jub’ had left Carlisle at 13.32 and stuck to within four minutes of the timetable through Workington and Whitehaven, being just…
-
Rare outing for Middleton’s tiny Hunslet
Posted
by
FORMER brewery 4wD Courage (Hunslet 1786 of 1935) made a rare outing during the Middleton Railway’s Work’s Outing gala on September 14-15. The locomotive was operated on the rarely used Balm Road branch. Here, it leads a demonstration goods train over Moor Road level crossing on the first day of the event. A wide variety…
