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By Robin Jones ALL 41 rail vehicles at Coventry’s unique Electric Railway Museum have been found new homes following the venue’s enforced closure by the city council. Heritage lines across the country have rallied round to offer accommodation for the museum’s exhibits, which have had to be dispersed across the country because a single-site replacement…

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Exclusive By Robin Jones THE Swanage Railway’s latest addition – globetrotting LSWR T3 4-4-0 No. 563 – may be returned to steam for the first time in 72 years. Controversy flared earlier this year when the National Railway Museum decided that as part of a rationalisation process, the 1892-built locomotive, the sole survivor of a…

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A legendary name among railway historians and enthusiasts, Old Oak Common shed signed off with its last-ever open day on September 2, when locomotives and traction units of the past, present and future came together to pay tribute to 111 proud years of history, in a showpiece event organised by the modern-day Great Western Railway,…

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TWO LNER icons took rival Great Western Railway territory by storm over the August bank holiday weekend. More than 6000 people from across the country decided to forego a trip to the beach on the sunny, summer bank holiday weekend and instead turned up to Didcot Railway Centre to see A3 Pacific No. 60103 Flying…

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The LMS is set to take centre stage ahead of the other Big Four railway companies at Great Northern Railwayana’s auction on October 7, when Royal Irish Fusilier, with its regimental badge from No. 46123 will be going under the hammer. The Royal Scot was built by the North British Loco Co in Glasgow in…

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A worksplate from Deltic D9003 Meld led a diesel one-two at Talisman’s August 12 sale at Newark, selling for £5500. The Class 55 was built by English Electric in 1960 and after strutting its stuff on the East Coast Main Line it was withdrawn as No. 55003 in December 1980 and cut up at Doncaster…

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ON FRIDAY, August 25, Ironbridge’s Blists Hill Victorian Town’s replica of Richard Trevithick’s 1802 Coalbrookdale locomotive was transported to the August 27-28 Shrewsbury Steam Rally using a Fowler steam road locomotive. The Coalbrookdale locomotive is thought to be a collaboration between the Cornish mining engineer and Shropshire ironmaster William Reynolds. In 1802, 27 years before…

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