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DRS ‘37s’ take on Three Peaks Challenge
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The annual rail industry ‘Three Peaks Challenge’ – raising money for the Railway Children charity – was once again supported by Direct Rail Services on June 13-15.
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Hope Works celebrates 90 years
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MORE than 2,000 people visited Breedon Group’s cement works at Hope, in Derbyshire, as the UK’s largest cement plant celebrated 90 years of operation. June 1 open day attractions at the Peak District plant included 0-6-0T industrial Nunlow, returning to its former home, and LNWR ‘Coal Tank’ No. 1054, as well as the resident ex-BR…
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UK railway news round-up
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Welcome to The Railway Hub’s weekly round-up of the latest news in the rail industry.
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D7535 arrives at Watchet
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One of our followers, Robert, has sent in this photograph, with this caption: “D7535 arrives at Watchet hauling the 16:48 Bishops Lydeard to Minehead on Friday, June 21 2019.”
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November launch for new Great British Model Railway Show
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The show will feature up to 30 layouts and 25 specialist traders as well as a number of modelling demonstrations in a Skills Zone.
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Train given rainbow livery to mark Brighton and Hove Pride
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A rail firm has unveiled a train emblazoned with a rainbow livery ahead of Brighton and Hove Pride.
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No. 813 returns to the North East for Tanfield ‘legends’ gala
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FORMER Backworth Collieries 0-6-0ST No. 12, better known in preservation as Great Western Railway No. 813, returned to the Tanfield Railway to celebrate its North East heritage at the line’s Legends of Industry gala on June 14-16. The 1901-built ‘Swindonised’ Hudswell, Clarke last visited Tanfield in 2007, and again was present courtesy of the GWR 813 Preservation…
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Govia Thameslink Railway fined £1m over passenger killed leaning out of window
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Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) has been fined £1 million after a passenger was killed when he put his head out of an unlocked carriage window.
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East Kent’s growing attractions…
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THE standard-gauge East Kent Railway (EKR), near Dover, continues to develop the attractions on offer to visitors. These include the 7¼in-gauge Knees Woodland Miniature Railway, opened in 2015, sited next to Shepherdswell station. Locos used are petrol, diesel and battery, with the main traction on March 24 provided by No. 5, a scale replica of a…
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Conductor strikes on East Midlands Trains to go ahead in pay row
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The first of a series of senior conductor strikes on East Midlands Trains is to go ahead on Saturday amid continued deadlock over a pay dispute.
