Heritage Railway

The Transport Treasury team have been busy. Six new books in the past few weeks – and steam (mostly) issuing from the computers!

The Nostalgia Collection expands with this book from Will Adams, exploring from Hendon to St Pancras before electrification.

Three new railway titles are now available to buy on the Mortons Books website – Railwaymen of the Welsh Valleys 1914-1967 Vol 2; More Memories of a Didcot Apprentice; and Stratford Depot Locomotives in the Eighties and Nineties

The National Railway Museum is set to feature in a new TV series produced by Whitworth Media appearing on More4 this summer. Chris Binks works

The classic games have been adapted to feature iconic locations and locomotives associated with the leading heritage railway.

In 2018 the Rail Camera Club organised the ‘Rail Cameraman’ exhibition at Locomotion, Shildon, showcasing the work of the club’s members.

Nutickets, an event technology company, has partnered with Great Central Railway (GCR), Britain’s only double track mainline heritage railway.

The SVR’s jubilee celebrations opened in style with the public renaming of locomotive No. 34027 as Elizabeth II – with unmissable purple livery.

Railway workers will go on a three-day strike over pay and jobs later this month.