Gareth Evans finds that the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway is bouncing back & planning its next 50 years.
Read moreSittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway steaming back to strength
Category: Narrow Gauge
New £3 million Ff&WHR Caernarfon terminus now open for business
The newest station in the heritage sector – the Welsh Highland Railway’s £3 million Caernarfon terminus.
Read moreNarrow Gauge In The Somme Sector before, during and after the First World War
By Martin JB Farebrother & Joan S Farebrother (hardback, Pen & Sword, 256pp £40, ISBN 1473887631). A timely publication indeed in view of the debut of a restored First World War Baldwin 4-6-0T and a
Read moreFirst World War Baldwin tank to debut at Welsh gala
A LOCOMOTIVE that is an example of a type which ran on the original Welsh Highland Railway is to be one of the stars of the revived line’s major June 21-23 heritage event. Repatriated Baldwin
Read moreTV star Gresley teak on the market
A GNR carriage that starred in the highly-acclaimed Channel 4 series Great Rail Restorations with Peter Snow is being offered for sale through Heritage Railway. Peter Lund, owner of Gresley BCK No. 4229, said that
Read moreNew beginning for Blaenau & Trawsfynydd group
THE Blaenau Ffestiniog & Trawsfynydd Railway Society is set for a new dawn, after members came together to vote on a fresh beginning and a new approach to returning trains to the line between Blaenau
Read moreMeenglass return boosts Derry railway revival hopes
County Donegal Railway 2-6-4T No. 4 Meenglas returned to Derry during snowfall after a £45,000 year-long cosmetic facelift at the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland workshops at Whitehead. It will now be displayed again outside
Read moreSix GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon
A RAKE of six BR 16T ‘Windcutter’ mineral wagons, borrowed from the Great Central Railway on a 10-year loan, will be first run in public by custodian the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway at its May
Read moreTalyllyn buys prime land next to Tywyn’s Pendre Works
THE Talyllyn Railway (TR) has bought a key piece of land alongside its Pendre Works, comprising two cottages on Frankwell Street and land opposite the West Shed at Pendre known as ‘The Orchard’. General manager
Read moreWLLR’s diminutive Dougal wows crowds in Taiwan
A SMALL piece of mid-Wales made a big impression in the Far East on Saturday, December 8, when the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway signed a ‘sister railway’ co-operation agreement with the Taiwan Sugar Corporation
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