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  • Valuation day this Sunday!

    Valuation day this Sunday!

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    Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury is the star valuer at a special railwayana valuation day.

  • County Durham station now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station

    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.

  • ‘Insane’ 11-hour Avanti West Coast journey goes viral

    ‘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.

  • The Railway Children train line among sites protected with funding

    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.

  • From the archive: When the government said ‘yes’ to HS2

    From the archive: When the government said ‘yes’ to HS2

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    With its future currently uncertain, take a look back at this archive article from 2012 following the announcement that the government planned to go ahead with HS2. What has changed and what has stayed the same?

  • Santa train is coming to town!

    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.

  • Continuing to put money into HS2 ‘irresponsible’, says former transport secretary

    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.

  • Exclusive showing of wreckers film

    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.

  • October 2023

    October 2023

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    Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts.

  • Transport Select Committee sets tests for rail strike minimum service levels

    Transport Select Committee sets tests for rail strike minimum service levels

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    MPs have set the Government a series of tests for its controversial new law on minimum levels of service during rail strikes.

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