Four Rail Tours, Five Days

Saturday 17th August 37516; Crewe – Liverpool 46233; Liverpool-Wigan-Settle-Carlisle-Shap-Preston-Liverpool 37516; Liverpool – Crewe Sunday 18th August 48151; York – Leeds – Keighley – Hellifield – Appleby – Carlisle (37706 on rear) 48151 (piloting 37706); Carlisle – Appleby – Hellifield – Keighley – Leeds – York Tuesday 20th August 48151 (piloting 47760); York-Normanton-Wakefield-Castleford-York-Scarborough – York Wednesday…

Gwili Gala Timetable

Further to the other days blog about the ‘Anything Goes’ Gala at the Gwili Railway, we are pleased to release the timetable which will be in force during the event, written by the UKHH’s Editor Rowan Jackson & Gwili Volunteer James Rodgers. To find out more about the event, take a look at the previous…

Derwent Valley Light Railway Centenary

The Derwent Valley Light Railway (DVLR) (also known as The Blackberry Line) was a privately owned standard-gauge railway running from Layerthorpe on the outskirts of York to Cliffe Common near Selby in Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1913, and closed in sections between 1965 and 1981. Between 1977 and 1979, passenger steam trains operated between Layerthorpe and Dunnington – the entire length of track at that time. In…