In conjunction with its Tyseley Open Days, Vintage Trains is running four return trains per day between Birmingham Moor Street and Dorridge.
Read moreBahamas booked for Tyseley Open Weekend in June
Tag: Jubilee
Your Gallery | Jubilee 45690 at Ribblehead
Jubilee 45690 “Leander” coasts across the viaduct at Ribblehead.
Read moreIt’s high fives as GW Railwayana lives up to its name
With a selection of five GWR nameplates, supported by six GWR cabsides and five smokebox numberplates from named locomotives, GW Railwayana will be living up to its name at its March 16 auction, although both
Read moreSteam at St Margarets in the Fifties
In issue 249, I enjoyed Gavin Morrison’s retro look at Holbeck shed’s last years of service in the 1960s. My memories of this atmospheric Midland Railway ‘Cathedral of Steam’ are from a decade or so
Read moreLast steam trip tops bill in District line 150 celebrations
THE last steam-hauled passenger rides through the central section of London Underground will be run as part of a series of events to celebrate the District line’s 150th anniversary. The modernisation of signalling on the
Read moreBahamas: just the ticket!
BACK in January the dates for the main line proving runs for newly-outshopped Jubilee 4-6-0 No.45596 Bahamas were continually pegged back, mainly it was understood, due to TPWS problems. At least six trips were pencilled
Read moreNew company formed to restore ‘forgotten’ Barry Standard 4MT
A NEW company has been formed to overhaul and ultimately operate the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway-based BR Standard 4MT 2-6-0 No. 76077. Considered for a long time to be one of the ‘lost’ ex-Barry locomotives since
Read more‘I thoroughly enjoyed it’ says last-minute Talisman Railwayana stand-in
Sandra Phipps delivered the goods at Talisman Railwayana’s November 24 auction at Newark.
Read moreTwo weeks on and the tills ring at Stoneleigh
Heading the line-up were nameplates from two Southern Railway Pacifics – Cunard White Star from Merchant Navy No. 35004 (£42,000) and Dorchester with the county town’s coat-of-arms from West Country No. 34042 (£38,000). Just two
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