Golden Tickets

The Severn Valley Railway is holding a competition to celebrate it’s golden jubilee.  To enter, all you need do is buy a ticket on the line from 5th July.  Six people lucky people will receive a golden ticket, giving them and a guest an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour – something that will surely attract many enthusiasts!

An Original Merchant Navy Class

Seeing as we are developing a Merchant Navy class theme on this blog at the moment, I thought it a good time add a picture of what is arguably the closest we have at the moment of seeing an original, unrebuilt Merchant Navy class locomotive.  This miniature replica of prototype 21C1 Channel Packet can be…

First Encounter with a Merchant Navy Class

As the focus of my career moves into contributing to writing and telling the story of the oldest surviving Merchant Navy class locomotive, it has made me think about my own story of experiences with the type. My first siting of one of these 97.9 ton beasts left a lasting impression on me.  Long term readers of this blog may…

Project 28: The Preview

A first look at Project 28, a new film being produced by UK Heritage Hub’s roving reporter James Corben. In this film, we take a look back over the past few years at some of Clan Line’s ground-breaking railtours, as well as a behind-the-scenes look inside the locomotive’s base at Stewarts Lane as the Merchant…

A Southern Steam Summer for the Swanage Railway

This summer, the Swanage Railway promises to be a quite incredible British Railways Southern region recreation.  The National Collection’s unique ex-LSWR T9 class 30120 arrived on the line today for a stay until October.  The locomotive is usually based on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, but is taking its summer vacation in Dorset for 2015.

UK Heritage Hub Issue 54A ready to download!

The brand new UKHH E-zine (Issue 54+) has been released today, 8th June, and is ready to download and read at your leisure. To find the magazine follow the link below: Issue 54+ – http://bit.ly/ukhhissue54 Our thanks to everyone, whom continues to contribute to this fast expanding enterprise. It is really gratifying to see new names…