CAS Weekly 12/12/15

Originally posted on Calling All Stations:
Image From TfL Museum Shop Modelling Engine Shed look at Hornby’s upcoming B12 and Q6 Class locos. Livery samples of Bachmann’s Wickham Trolley. UK Rail Rail fares set for annual increase. What’s the most expensive journey per mile? It’s no good building a new railway if it sucks. Scotland’s also doing it’s best to…

GCR Bridge Update

Earlier in the year we published an article that speculated on whether the Government’s announcement that they are to pause the electrification of the Midland Mainline might adversely affect the project to bridge the gap between both preserved section’s of the former Great Central Railway mainline.  The Great Central Railway have since issued the following…

“Big Plans” to transform the world’s largest railway museum

The City of York Council working with Network Rail, the National Railway Museum and the Homes and Communities Agency have created a “new vision” for York.  The scheme includes various improvements of how the railway station is accessed from the city centre and the redevelopment of the city’s largest (178 acre) brownfield site located behind York Central railway station.  The…

London Road

Good evening, Tonight we are looking at another one of my favourite layouts from the South Hants Model Railway Club show in November. The layout in question is a P4 layout called London Road owned by Jolyon Wilkinson. London Road was originally built in the 1980s as a four road suburban terminus, representing the LNWR…

Plans to steam into Buxton spring forward

Negotiations between Derbyshire County Council and Peak Rail have been ongoing for some time, looking at options for extending the preserved line into the Peak District National Park and onwards to Buxton.  The main sticking point has been that around eight and a half miles of the former track bed has since closure as a railway been converted…