Santa Special

  • Leighton Buzzard Railway releases general sale Santa Special tickets

    Leighton Buzzard Railway releases general sale Santa Special tickets

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    The Leighton Buzzard Railway is delighted to announce that tickets for its 2022 Christmas season are now on general sale.

  • Make it a December to remember at NYMR

    Make it a December to remember at NYMR

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    Tickets for the ever-popular Santa Special services at The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) are now live

  • Diamond celebrations for Norwich ‘engineers’

    Diamond celebrations for Norwich ‘engineers’

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    EATON Park MR is celebrating its 60th anniversary year. The Norwich-based line is run by the Norwich & District Society of Model Engineers.  It was opened in 1959 as a raised, 5in-gauge track, with a 5in-/ 7¼in-gauge ground-level line being introduced in 2006.  Trains run Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays, April 7 to October 6,…

  • Mangapps expands its collectionwith former Network Rail Class 31s

    Mangapps expands its collectionwith former Network Rail Class 31s

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    THE Mangapps Railway, Essex has acquired two former Network Rail Class 31s – Nos. 31105 (D5523) and 31233 (D5660). The privately owned railway has lost all of its big diesels of Classes 31, 33 and 47 in recent times, after being transferred to new homes with longer operating lines. The Class 31s are in good condition,…

  • 2018 visitor numbers up as railways report another successful year

    2018 visitor numbers up as railways report another successful year

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    LAST Easter’s opening of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s (Gloucs-Warks) extension to Broadway has seen all passenger records tumble for 2018, witnessing a passenger figure increase of more than 40%.  Yet the Gloucs-Warks is not alone in reporting passenger growth, and the majority of the railways that responded to The RM’s enquiries prior to going to…

  • Odney Manor returns at WSR… albeit briefly

    Odney Manor returns at WSR… albeit briefly

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    COLLETT ‘Manor’ No. 7828 Odney Manor made a triumphant return to service at the West Somerset Railway in the final weeks of 2018 after a two-year absence and overhaul. The BR(W) 4-6-0, resplendent in BR lined green with early crest, made its public debut on ‘Santa Special’ duties on December 22, and was set to…

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