15th December 2015 – Locoyard Advent Calendar

Click on the picture to reveal today’s Advent picture (Copyright Brian L Dominic – The Mid-Derbyshire Light railway (www.mdlr.co.uk) – 10 Lady Sybil pauses at Haddon station on Christmas Eve.) Do you want to contribute to the locoyard advent calendar? Click here to find out how you can!

Winter Steam Festival

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…

Christmas Photographs Please!

We hope you have been enjoying this year’s Advent Calendar!  We are open for contributions to the Advent Calendar, so if you have a winter themed image from a railway (real or model,) please send it in!  Full credit to the contributor will be given and we’ll gladly promote your own website and/or YouTube channel in exchange. …

CAS Weekly 12/12/15

Originally posted on Calling All Stations:
Image From TfL Museum Shop Modelling Engine Shed look at Hornby’s upcoming B12 and Q6 Class locos. Livery samples of Bachmann’s Wickham Trolley. UK Rail Rail fares set for annual increase. What’s the most expensive journey per mile? It’s no good building a new railway if it sucks. Scotland’s also doing it’s best to…

GCR Bridge Update

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…

“Big Plans” to transform the world’s largest railway museum

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…