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Volunteer’s classic car goes full distance at SVR

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Robin Jones

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17th July 2024

Marking Kidderminster Town station’s 40th anniversary on July 27 and 28 will be an extra cause for celebration for one of the Severn Valley Railway’s volunteers.
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Celebrate 150 years of Midsomer Norton

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Robin Jones

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11th July 2024

A gala day is being held by the Somerset & Dorset Railway to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the opening of Midsomer Norton station.
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Flying Scotsman returns to Locomotion for summer festival

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Robin Jones

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11th July 2024

Locomotion will host a spectacular six-week summer festival that includes a four-week visit from iconic locomotive Flying Scotsman.
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Diesels primed for feast of British Rail nostalgia at GWR gala

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Robin Jones

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11th July 2024

The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s annual Summer Heritage Diesel Gala is all set to go this coming weekend with the diesel fleet firing on all cylinders for an action-packed July 12-14.
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Forty years for SVR’s Kidderminster Town station

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Robin Jones

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11th July 2024

The Severn Valley Railway will celebrate a milestone in its history on the weekend of July 27 and 28 when it marks 40 years since the opening of Kidderminster Town station.
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Celebrate a ‘Day of Dance’ at the Severn Valley Railway

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Robin Jones

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6th July 2024

The Severn Valley Railway is hosting a mini-festival of traditional British dance performances on Saturday, July 20.
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Roads To Rail this weekend

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Robin Jones

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26th June 2024

Dedicated Swanage Railway volunteers are to stage a nostalgic fundraising steam rally this weekend – bringing the Isle of Purbeck to life with evocative re-creations of a bygone age.
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Train restoration enthusiast awarded BEM for service to steam and heritage railways

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Alex Bestwick

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17th June 2024

A steam engine restoration enthusiast has been awarded a British Empire Medal for his service to steam and heritage railways after buying and restoring 11 engines with his own money. Peter Best said that seeing young people on one of his trains gives him “huge pleasure and pride”, despite the financial cost. Mr Best is…
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Tour the diesel and electric locomotives of the 80s and 90s in new book

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Alex Bestwick

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14th June 2024

Roger Rounce’s new book presents a round-the-UK tour of diesel and electric locomotives, from Devon and Cornwall right the way up to Scotland and everything else in between. The new book ‘Diesel and Electric Locomotives Around the UK in the 80s and 90s’ will be published by Gresley Books later this month, with pre-orders now…
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Chinnor steam gala guest loco announced

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Gareth Evans

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7th June 2024

A BR Western Region tender locomotive which normally operates in the Cotswolds is due to star in a gala at an Oxfordshire heritage line in September. ‘Manor’ 4-6-0 No. 7820 Dinmore Manor is set to make its debut on the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway (C&PRR) during the line’s September 13-15 steam gala. The 1950-built…
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