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TESCO’S plastic carrier bag charge fund has paid dividends for conservationists caring for preserved Hadlow Road station on the Wirral. The Friends of Hadlow Road Station group in Willaston has been given £5000 from the supermarket giant’s Bags of Help funding initiative. The group was formed three years ago to care for the 1950s-themed station…

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THE first wheelset for new-build Gresley P2 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales is now complete. The Cartazzi wheelset has had its wheels pressed onto its axle by South Devon Railway Engineering at Buckfastleigh and its tyres were due to be shrunk onto the wheels by late August. The completion of the wheelset has been…

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PACKED four-carriage trains were the order of the day throughout a weekend of celebrations on August 5-6, to mark the formal commissioning of the mile-long 2ft gauge Hayling Railway’s new operating depot at Eastoke Corner. Trains were hauled by 1919 Bagnall 0-4-0ST Wendy, courtesy of the Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway Trust, and normally based at…

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By Paul Appleton A decade on from the disastrous floods that temporarily closed the Severn Valley Railway – subject of a new display at the Engine House museum and visitor at Highley – £1 million repairs to a new landslip that has threatened to sever the line during the busiest part of the main operating…

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By Geoff Courtney It surely ranks as one of the most unusual and idiosyncratic restored railways in the world, for it is noisy, cramped, uncomfortable, dark, and can even be a little intimidating. I wouldn’t describe it as fun, but fascinating it most certainly is. It is also the UK’s newest restored railway, and it’s…

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THE Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway’s Peckett 0-6-0ST Jurassic is to haul its first passenger trains in nearly a third of a century on September 17. Restored with the help of £43,000 in Lottery funding, Jurassic, No. 1008 of 1903, will run on the line during the Classic Car & Bike Show at the Skegness Water…

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Mid-Norfolk Railway volunteers have been busy restoring the line between Dereham and North Elmham over the past few years. It had not been used since the last freight left North Elmham in January 1989. To celebrate progress, a volunteer and members special train was run to the limit of the rebuilt track on the evening…

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