By Robin Jones and Cedric Johns BRITAIN’S newest Train Operating Company, Vintage Trains Limited, has run its first official train – and it wasn’t steam or heritage stock. Just nine days after the TOC’s public
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The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, the registered charity that built, owns and operates world-famous 100mph new steam locomotive No. 60163 Tornado, has launched a new fundraising campaign to mark Tornado’s 10th birthday this year and
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A presentation was made on 12 October to the Bodmin & Wenford Railway of the former signalling Panel from Lostwithiel box, on behalf of Network Rail. It covers the section from Liskeard to Lostwithiel, including
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The weekend of September 29-30 saw Tyseley Locomotive Works celebrate in style the 50th anniversary of its first open day back in 1968. Robin Jones encountered a fresh atmosphere of euphoria and positivIty around the
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Gareth Evans reports on the Super-Power 2018 gala, which celebrated the start of Welsh Highland trains between Dinas and Caernarfon in 1997 – and he also gains a look inside the line’s impressive new northern
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This year’s Severn Valley Railway’s September 20-23 autumn steam gala has been described as the event of the year, featuring no less than three express passenger locomotives in Royal Scot, Duchess of Sutherland and Britannia.
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THE Dartmouth Steam Railway is to light up Christmas… and offer a festive steam special like no other. It will run a series of American-style Christmas trains, with locomotives and carriages lit up with in
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THE National Railway Museum has confirmed that the workshop at York is to close in order to create both more gallery space and more space for displaying rolling stock. Titled The Works, the Heritage Lottery
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By Cedric Johns DESPITE indifferent morning weather when Flying Scotsman departed Plymouth North Road to begin the A3’s first-ever visit into Cornwall, thousands lined the 78 miles of the testing route across the Duchy to
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By Cedric Johns the Railway Touring Company slips into autumn on Sunday, October 7 with a trip to Matlock – having wrapped up its summer programme with trains to Plymouth and Par on September 2
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