Those of you who have been following this year’s advent calendar will have seen that there have been plenty of festive shots from the Watercress Line. As with many preserved lines, the Mid-Hants Railway is very busy at this time of year and there are plenty of special services, with Christmas dinners and Santa Specials. A lot of…
14xx 1450 will be returning to the South Devon Railway for the line’s 2016 Winter steam Festival, marking the early days of preservation in 1966 when the 0-4-2T arrived on the former Dart Valley Railway. The festival will take place over 13-22 February 2016 and is likely yo feature auto trains for 1450 and another…
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…
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…
Good evening, Tonight we are looking at a rather interesting story that was in the newspapers recently about the worlds most famous train.The National Railway Museum asked people across four continents to name five trains or engines they had heard of and the Scotsman topped the poll. It came out just ahead of the Rajadhani…
The image above shows a 65 year old machine from a locomotive class first introduced 70 years ago, a class that would be the basis for the most numerically successful type in the history of railways in the UK. 21 of this locomotive’s 60 year-long commercial career was spent serving British Railways. Next to it is a steam engine…
£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…
Loco Yard 