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  • Great Central Railway goes digital with its ticketing system

    Great Central Railway goes digital with its ticketing system

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    Nutickets, an event technology company, has partnered with Great Central Railway (GCR), Britain’s only double track mainline heritage railway.

  • Elizabeth II’s purple reign!

    Elizabeth II’s purple reign!

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    The SVR’s jubilee celebrations opened in style with the public renaming of locomotive No. 34027 as Elizabeth II – with unmissable purple livery.

  • Launch of major appeal to restore SVR’s vital locomotive yard

    Launch of major appeal to restore SVR’s vital locomotive yard

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    The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) has launched a major appeal for £500,000 to restore its locomotive yard in Bridgnorth – vital for the operation of the entire railway.

  • Get involved with East Yorkshire’s heritage railway

    Get involved with East Yorkshire’s heritage railway

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    East Yorkshire’s heritage railway, the Yorkshire Wolds Railway, is busily preparing to celebrate The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by opening all four days in a row – and it’s hosting a volunteering taster day, too. John Lidster, chairman of the YWR, said: “This is certainly a first for us. We usually open one day a week,…

  • Get involved with Yorkshire Wolds Railway’s Jubilee weekend

    Get involved with Yorkshire Wolds Railway’s Jubilee weekend

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    The Yorkshire Wolds Railway (YWR) is preparing to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by opening every day over the Bank Holiday weekend.

  • Jubilee celebrations in Lincolnshire

    Jubilee celebrations in Lincolnshire

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    Heritage trains will celebrate the The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on two days of the forthcoming Bank Holiday on the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway.

  • Elizabeths go free at the Severn Valley Railway’s Jubilee event

    Elizabeths go free at the Severn Valley Railway’s Jubilee event

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    To honour the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) is allowing free travel to everyone called Elizabeth throughout its special four-day celebratory event in early June.

  • Elizabeths ‘go free’ at SVR’s jubilee event

    Elizabeths ‘go free’ at SVR’s jubilee event

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    It’s free travel for anyone called Elizabeth…

  • On track for fun at Steam Weekend

    On track for fun at Steam Weekend

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    fans young and old are expected to go loco this weekend when Blists Hill Victorian Town hosts its popular Steam Weekend. 

  • Summer 2022 at the Middy 

    Summer 2022 at the Middy 

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    Suffolk’s only standard gauge preserved railway and winners of 2021 Heritage Railway Association’s Restoration Award, the ‘Middy’ will operate steam trains on summer Sundays and Bank Holidays until 4th September.

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