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Flying Scotsman involved in ‘shunting incident’ at Aviemore Station
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Flying Scotsman was involved in a “slow speed” crash with another heritage train hours before visitors were due to board it. The crash happened at Aviemore Railway Station, in the Cairngorms, Scottish Highlands, at 7.10pm on Friday.
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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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Unions call for emergency summit to discuss HS2
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Unions are calling for an emergency summit to discuss HS2 as speculation about the high-speed railway line’s future continues.
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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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County Durham station now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station
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A County Durham railway station has been found to be older than first thought and is now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station, new research has discovered.
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‘Insane’ 11-hour Avanti West Coast journey goes viral
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A rail passenger has described his “insane” 11-hour journey from Preston in Lancashire to Edinburgh which ended at 3.30am after a “ridiculous” taxi ride.
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The Railway Children train line among sites protected with funding
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A train line featured in The Railway Children film is among a number of “cherished” UK institutions to receive protection with government funding.
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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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Continuing to put money into HS2 ‘irresponsible’, says former transport secretary
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It would be “irresponsible” to keep putting money into the HS2 project in the face of rising costs, a Cabinet minister has said as Rishi Sunak reportedly considered scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester leg of the route.
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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.
