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…
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…
The Watercress line have announced that two appropriate visitors will be visiting for next year’s Spring Steam Gala. T9 class 30120 will be returning and will be joined by the Bluebell line’s Q class 30541. Both locomotives are the only survivors of their respective classes and the opportunity to see both side by side will…
The Watercress Line announced yesterday that their fantastic new Ropley Waiting Shelter has won the Railway Heritage Trust’s ‘Stagecoach Volunteer’s Award’ in London! The shelter was officially opened earlier in the year by Tim Shoveller, Managing Director of South West Trains and volunteer on the railway. It uses decorative cast iron columns and arches from the old Ringwood station…
There was more to follow Hornby’s shock release of details of their 2016 range on Thursday! There are also two new LNER steam locomotives on their way from the Margate based firm. The first will be a super-detail 4-6-0 Holden B12 Class. This promises to be far better than the old model that so many…
Well I was not expecting this to come today! With the model railway community preparing for the possibility of announcements at the forthcoming Warley National Model Railway Exhibition (this weekend), today Hornby have chosen today to announce their 2016 range! Having barely looked through, it’s difficult to make a full assessment, but it’s interesting to see the…
£58,000 has been awarded to the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust by the Heritage Lottery Fund to help them deliver their planned 50th Anniversary Commemorations of the closing of the line in 1966. This will fund a travelling exhibition that will visit around 30 locations throughout Somerset and Dorset locations in 2016. The trust are based at Washford on the West…
Baldwin built S160 class 2-8-0 no. 2253 has been moved to the workshop of Adam Dalgleish Engineering Ltd in Stockton-On-Tees for its overhaul to commence. The target for completion of its overhaul is 2017 and is part of a ten year loan agreement for the locomotive to run on the Paignton and Dartmouth steam railway. Although the American machine…
Graham Muz has a look at sample of the new Oxford Adams radial tank which will be coming out soon. Southern Railway, Fisherton Sarum, Canute Road Quay & Westhill Road Oxford Rail, the new brand of The 4mm scale road vehicle manufacturer Oxford Diecast, announced last November their intention to enter the UK 4mm 00 scale ready…
An update on the overhaul of Merchant Navy class 35005 Canadian Pacific has been published. Please go to http://preservation.watercressline.co.uk/blog/entry/canpac-overhaul-update-november-2015 to read more!
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