News
Two A4s to come home from North America – official!
25 January 2012
AS exclusively revealed in Heritage Railway, and first announced on this website in August 2011, the National Railway Museum has confirmed that a formal agreement has been reached with transatlantic colleagues to temporarily repatriate two A4 class locomotives to play a part in the celebrations to mark the 75th anniversary of Mallard’s world record breaking 126mph run down Stoke Bank in Lincolnshire on July 3 1938.
Football fans asked to help build new B17 Manchester United
25 January 2012
A scheme to build a new steam locomotive celebrating the world’s most famous football club is being launched.
Prince Charles renames Britannia
24 January 2012
Prince Charles arrived by Royal Train at Wakefield Kirkgate station – and renamed a locomotive with strong family connections.
LNWR Coal Tank returns for steam gala
19 January 2012
An historic steam locomotive owned by the National Trust will be the star guest at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s February 10-12 Winter Steam Gala.
East Lancashire Railway launches Rail Ale Trail
24 January 2012
The East Lancashire Railway is launching a new ale trail.
Other News
- Swindon & Cricklade inches closer to town
- Shildon: a fresh look through art
- Wight line breaks passenger records
- Volunteers undertake £100,000 drainage system replacement at Swanage
- Restoration cash up for grabs
- Joem returns to the NYMR
- Cumbrian main line steam back on track
- Rock delivered for Ffestiniog’s cob widening
- Clubs confirm exhibition displays for big Manchester show
- Vandals smash carriage windows at North Weald
Feature Articles
Steaming back in the seventies - Preservation 1970-74
19 January 2012
Those who thought that steam died when British Railways ran the ‘15 Guinea Special’ on 11 August 1968 could not have been more wrong.
The end of steam and a new beginning
22 December 2011
At the end of 1964, there was one preserved standard gauge steam line; five years later, there were only two more; a grand total of 15 miles of heritage steam railway.
Other Feature Articles
Competitions
Win a London 1948 Olympics train set
CLOSING DATE: Wednesday, 29th February 2012
As well as the return of steam to the Epping Ongar Railway this summer, and hopefully the reconnection of the Bluebell Railway to East Grinstead and a direct rail link to the capital, there will be another event in the city this summer, last held there in the steam age. The Olympic Games.
Other Competitions
Videos
Send us your photos and videos
6 June 2011
Do you want to see your photos or videos on the Heritage Railway website for our readers to see?
Then send them in...
Dominion of New Zealand on ‘Cathedrals Express’
6 June 2011
LNER A4 streamlined Pacific No. 4492 Dominion of Canada was filmed departing from Peterborough as it headed northwards with the ‘Cathedrals Express’ from King’s Cross to York and return on Saturday 4 June.
Other Videos
Current Issue: 19 Jan 2012
■ EXCLUSIVE: PITCHFORD HALL AND PRAIRIE SOLD TO ONGAR
■ DUCHESS STEAMS IN BR GREEN
■ PRINCE CHARLES RENAMING BRITANNIA AT WAKEFIELD
■ COMPLETE 2012 EVENTS GUIDE
■ FLYING SCOTSMAN’S BR DAYS
■ THE WRONG KIND OF SNOW
■ GREAT NORTH SURVIVORS
■ CALBOURNE TO RUN AT BODMIN
■ WEARDALE AXES COMMUNITY SERVICES
■ FREE TORNADO AND GWR CASTLE POSTER
■ WIN LIMITED EDITION HORNBY OLYMPICS STEAM SET
PLUS:
• Next issue on sale: 16 Feb 2012
