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  • NER Autocar wins two HRA Awards

    NER Autocar wins two HRA Awards

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    THE NER 1903 Autocar Trust won two prestigious prizes at the Heritage Railway Association’s 2019 Awards, which were held in central Birmingham on February 9. The team’s superb restoration of Autocar No. 3170 earned it the Rail Express-sponsored Modern Traction Award, plus the Manisty Award – one of the heritage rail industry’s most prestigious awards…

  • FIRST SHOTTS LINE ELECTRIC

    FIRST SHOTTS LINE ELECTRIC

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    Freightliner locos No. 86638 and 86627 were the first electric traction to use the newly electrified line between Glasgow and Edinburgh via Shotts when they performed test runs on February 24. First No. 86638 ran light engine both ways between Holytown and Midcalder Junctions, calling at all stations, then the pair ‘top and tailed’ a…

  • Network Rail shake-up sees the return of regions

    Network Rail shake-up sees the return of regions

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    NETWORK Rail’s chief executive Andrew Haines has announced that a reorganisation of the infrastructure owner will see the return of five regions, within which there will be 13 routes. The reorganised map looks very similar to the former British Rail structure, with the creation of Eastern, London North Western, Wales and Western, Southern and Scotland…

  • Your Gallery | Jubilee “Bahamas” arrives at Oxenhope

    Your Gallery | Jubilee “Bahamas” arrives at Oxenhope

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    “Bahamas” coasts into Oxenhope on the final day of the KWVR Spring gala, sent in by Mike Webber.

  • “Big Jim” No.5820 sets off

    “Big Jim” No.5820 sets off

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    Plenty of steam at Keighley as Big Jim sets off on the third day of the KWVR Spring gala, sent in by Mike Webber.

  • Revolutionary lightweight tram planned for Coventry

    Revolutionary lightweight tram planned for Coventry

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    It’s design could revise thinking for cities keen to adopt VLRs as a way of cutting emissions.

  • Severn Valley supports £50m scheme which could reopen Eardington Halt

    Severn Valley supports £50m scheme which could reopen Eardington Halt

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    THE Severn Valley Railway has backed a £50 million holiday venue plan which could see Eardington station reopened. General manager Nick Ralls has written to Shropshire Council in support of multi-million pound plans for the leisure development on the Astbury Estate near Bridgnorth, drawn up by the FCFM Group. The estate, which already includes a…

  • South Devon confirms golden anniversary celebrations

    South Devon confirms golden anniversary celebrations

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    While there will be many activities and events going on throughout the year to mark 50 years since part of the GWR Ashburton branch reopened as the Dart Valley Railway, the key centrepiece events are the April 6-14 steam gala and the July 19-21 diesel gala, the South Devon Railway has confirmed. Two locomotives which…

  • Impromptu ‘gala’ brings in the crowds

    Impromptu ‘gala’ brings in the crowds

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    By Paul Appleton THE first day of the Severn Valley Railway’s 2019 operating season, February 16, had the air of a gala event, with former BR Standard 4MT 4-6-0 No. 75069 making its public debut on the 10.30am ex-Bridgnorth and the first train off Kidderminster double-headed by GWR/PTR 0-6-0ST No. 813 and Collett 0-6-0PT No.…

  • Helston gets historic St Austell GWR footbridge

    Helston gets historic St Austell GWR footbridge

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    ST AUSTELL station’s landmark GWR footbridge is to stay in Cornwall after all – having been moved to the award-winning Helston Railway. There had been calls for the 1882 riveted iron lattice footbridge to remain in the duchy as part of its heritage, despite it being superseded by a new £500,000 fully-accessible footbridge five years…

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