Heritage Railway

By Geoff Courtney A HALL packed with railwayana collectors, enthusiasts and the media saw LNER Pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman add another world record to its CV on November 17 when one of its nameplates sold at auction to an overseas collector for £64,500. Much had been made of the impending sale in the weeks…

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This Christmas, Network Rail is sharing one of the railway’s most historically important artefacts with the world. The rediscovery this year of a notebook written by ‘father of the railways’ George Stephenson enabled the public to see remarkable plans of the birth of the passenger railway for the first time. John Page, a records assistant at Network Rail’s archive in York,…

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BARNACLE-encrusted track panels from a lost tramway across Summerleaze Beach at Bude have been uncovered by high tides. The 2ft gauge track appears to be an extension of rails which are set into the harbourside where the Bude Canal forms the town port before it enters the sea. Recent storms have washed around 3ft of…

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