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Forty years for SVR’s Kidderminster Town station
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The Severn Valley Railway will celebrate a milestone in its history on the weekend of July 27 and 28 when it marks 40 years since the opening of Kidderminster Town station.
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New MPs criticise ‘shambles’ train services as their journeys to London are disrupted
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Several newly-elected Labour MPs have criticised the reliability of train services after suffering disruption during journeys to take their seats in the House of Commons. The politicians posted on social media about their disrupted journeys as they travel to London ahead of the Parliament sitting on Tuesday for the first time since the General Election.…
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Celebrate a ‘Day of Dance’ at the Severn Valley Railway
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The Severn Valley Railway is hosting a mini-festival of traditional British dance performances on Saturday, July 20.
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Passengers travelling to Glastonbury by train warned to expect disruptions
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Music fans travelling to Glastonbury Festival by train on Thursday have been warned they could face disruptions.
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Roads To Rail this weekend
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Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers are to stage a nostalgic fundraising steam rally this weekend – bringing the Isle of Purbeck to life with evocative re-creations of a bygone age.
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Train cancellations up 8% in a year
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Train cancellations in England and Wales have risen by 8% in the past year, latest figures show. The equivalent of 249,133 trains were cancelled in the year to the end of March, according to Office of Rail and Road (ORR) data, an average of 681 every day. During the previous 12 months, the total was…
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Lake District town added to train journey planners despite not having a railway station
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Avanti West Coast said passengers can now travel to Keswick with a single ticket, despite the town not having a railway station. Keswick has been added to train journey planners in an effort to encourage tourists to travel car-free, with passengers able to buy a single ticket covering travel by train and bus to and…
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Train restoration enthusiast awarded BEM for service to steam and heritage railways
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A steam engine restoration enthusiast has been awarded a British Empire Medal for his service to steam and heritage railways after buying and restoring 11 engines with his own money. Peter Best said that seeing young people on one of his trains gives him “huge pleasure and pride”, despite the financial cost. Mr Best is…
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Tour the diesel and electric locomotives of the 80s and 90s in new book
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Roger Rounce’s new book presents a round-the-UK tour of diesel and electric locomotives, from Devon and Cornwall right the way up to Scotland and everything else in between. The new book ‘Diesel and Electric Locomotives Around the UK in the 80s and 90s’ will be published by Gresley Books later this month, with pre-orders now…
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Introducing The Railway Magazine monthly subscriptions
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Pay as you go and get Britain’s best-selling rail title delivered to your door each month. And we’ve thrown in access to the 120-year archive too! We get it, paying for an annual subscription all at once is a big commitment. That’s why we’re rolling out our new monthly subscriptions, which gives you all the…
