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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!
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Protesters lose legal challenge against HS2 rail line running through woodland
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Environmental campaigners opposed to the HS2 rail line running through a woodland area in west London have lost their latest court fight.
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Class 66 locomotive carrying The Railway Magazine name given makeover
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The Class 66 locomotive which carries the name of The Railway Magazine has been given a brand new look.
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Avanti West Coast unveiled as new operator to replace Virgin Trains
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Avanti West Coast will be the name of the new InterCity West Coast rail franchise, new operators FirstGroup and Trenitalia announce.
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Election 2019: What are party promises on Britain’s railways?
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In a week of promises and revelations, we take a closer look at what the Labour, Lib Dems and Tory manifesto spending promises mean for Britain’s railways.
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Rail workers to stage second Saturday strike in row over staffing
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Rail workers will stage the second in a series of strikes on Saturday in a dispute over staffing on trains.
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UK railway news round-up
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The Railway Hub’s weekly round-up of the latest railway news. Here are this week’s top stories…
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Rail unions welcome Labour party pledge to end driver-only trains
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Unions have welcomed a pledge by Labour to end the “discriminatory practice” of driver-only trains on the railways, guaranteeing there will be a second member of fully trained staff.
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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…
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Morpeth crash: I helped two survivors
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THE feature by Fraser Pithie on the Morpeth Curve (RM Sept) was a fascinating read, which allowed me to re-live my involvement in the 1984 crash. We lived at 45 Low Stobhill at the time of the 1984 crash. I loved the fact there were trains at the bottom of my garden, and my son and…
