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  • Virgin Trains launch legal action against government over West Coast route

    Virgin Trains launch legal action against government over West Coast route

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    Virgin, Stagecoach and SNCF say that the Department for Transport breached its duties in barring them from tendering.

  • Llanelli & Mynydd Mawr acquires its own ‘Gronk’

    Llanelli & Mynydd Mawr acquires its own ‘Gronk’

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    THE Llanelli & Mynydd Mawr Railway (L&MMR) received Class 08 No. 08795 on March 22 from the Great Western Railway, Landore depot, Swansea (87E, latterly LE), which closed in December 2018.  No. 08795 requires some attention before being launched into traffic at an event later in the year.  Read more in the May 2019 issue of The…

  • Highs and lows at the West Somerset

    Highs and lows at the West Somerset

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    THE West Somerset Railway reopened on March 30 after a three-month winter closure.  There was much celebration, but a lot of work is required and money spent to bring the railway back its former glory. Weight restrictions have been introduced, down-grading the line to a GWR Blue route (17.9T axle loading). This follows advice from…

  • GKN-liveried Jessie enters Blaenavon line service

    GKN-liveried Jessie enters Blaenavon line service

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    Former Cardiff resident Hunslet 0-6-0ST Jessie (1873/1937) joined the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway’s (P&BR) operational fleet on April 19 following overhaul and conversion back to its original guise by owner Mike Pearce at the Barry Tourist Railway.  As reported (RM April), Jessie has been stripped of its former ‘Thomas’ guise, losing the side tanks, and…

  • Mid-Norfolk Railway gala showcases new sidings

    Mid-Norfolk Railway gala showcases new sidings

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    THE Mid-Norfolk Railway’s April 5-7 diesel gala started in glorious sunshine, but the number of passengers was low.  Trains ran between Dereham and Wyndham only, but a problem with the signalling installed in connection with the new storage sidings at Kimberley Park led to delays, amounting to about 40 minutes by the end of the…

  • Donations to Market Deeping Model Railway Club appeal soars to £100k

    Donations to Market Deeping Model Railway Club appeal soars to £100k

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    Market Deeping Model Railway Club lost years of work after intruders got into a school in Stamford on Saturday.

  • Summer reopening plan for damaged Conwy Valley line

    Summer reopening plan for damaged Conwy Valley line

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    Work is underway to repair the Conwy Valley Line in North Wales after flooding washed away significant sections of the line for the second time in three years.

  • £300m to improve access at 73 stations

    £300m to improve access at 73 stations

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    73 stations are sharing a £300million Government cash injection to improve access for all passengers.

  • Shotts line £160m wiring work completed on time

    Shotts line £160m wiring work completed on time

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    THE £160million project to electrify a fifth route between Edinburgh and Glasgow has been completed on time and on budget.  The electrification project has been undertaken to cater for projected growth in passenger numbers from towns such as Livingston and West Calder into Edinburgh in the east and from Cleland and Shotts into Glasgow in…

  • Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular

    Scunthorpe steelworks rail tours remain popular

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    Appleby Frodingham Railway Preservation Society runs rail tours around the busy rail-served complex of British Steel’s Scunthorpe steelworks on selected summer weekends.

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