Today, the Watercress Line’s Bulleid brake coach 4211 reached a significant milestone by being sent to Alresford for vehicle acceptance. All being well it should enter service within the next few weeks. The restoration of this beautiful wooden bodied carriage was all the more incredible when you consider that much of it was newly built…
The Ribble Steam Railway is a particularly charismatic standard gauge steam railway. It runs for one and a half miles through Preston Docks and fittingly given this location has a very large collection of industrial locomotives. Indeed, many of you will be shocked to see how massive the fleet is (go to http://www.ribblesteam.org.uk/exhibits/locomotive-check-list to see for yourself!)…
This blog has come a long way since it’s first post in 2012 and working as part of UK Heritage Hub has certainly been one of its’ successes. UK Heritage Hub is more than just an ezine, it is the bringing together of a community of like minded people and the work of Rowan Jackson as editor…
Good evening, If you’ve been on Twitter, Facebook or reading this blog recently you would have noticed that we are really pushing for people to vote for the Mid Hants “Mind The Gap” apprenticeship project which is one of seven finalists in the Heritage category of the 2015 National Lottery Awards. One of the main…
150 years ago the Hunslet Railway Company built their first steam locomotive – an 0-6-0 saddle tank. The company would continue to build around 7000 locomotives that would be exported and used all over the world. Until 1995 they built locomotives in their works at Jack Lane, Leeds and the city and the company name are synonymous with…
Good evening, Tonight we are pleased to report that yesterday 35006 Peninsular & Oriental S.N. Co, passed her formal steam test with her insurance company. She has had a few trial steamings of her boiler over the last few months, enabling a number of minor niggles to be identified and corrected.This is a very significant…
We reported back in May that the East Lancashire Railway were looking for votes in Aviva Community Fund and we’re very happy to report that they were successful in obtaining £10,000! The funds will be used towards completing the canopy of platform 2 at Bury Bolton Street Station. Naturally the railway is elated with the news as…
Just a very short blog post this evening to let you all know that this weekend (11 and 12th June 2015) 4464 Bittern is planned to be in service on the Watercress Line. So it is a great time to visit the Mid-Hants Railway as you can be hauled by the fastest steam engine to run in preservation…
From the 3rd to 16th August 2015, the Kent and East Sussex Railway will become home to the South Devon Railway’s London Transport liveried pannier tank engine L.92. This will be the first time a London Transport liveried locomotive has worked on the rural light railway and will therefore no doubt attract many visitors! To…
The Bluebell Railway’s U class no 1638 has officially been retired from service. The locomotive was withdrawn due to it requiring repairs that although minor would have needed a hydraulic test and with just six months remaining on it’s boiler certificate, the line have sensibly been decided that resources should instead be put into the completion of the overhaul of British Railways…
Loco Yard 