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…

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…

Locoyard Model Railway 2.0 Update

In what admittedly is probably the longest model railway development in history, things have unsurprisingly been progressing slowly.  There are plenty of reasons for this, the most obvious being life getting in the way!  But I thought it time for an update anyway. The layout is to be located in a box room – a room…