Rail Express

National Railway Museum’s Station Hall to close temporarily for £10.5m refurbishment

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Arianne Davey

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16th November 2022

The National Railway Museum’s historic Station Hall will close temporarily in the New Year to enable urgent structural repairs to take place as part of the museum’s ambitious redevelopment plans.
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Bank holiday train services to be disrupted because of engineering work

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Alex Bestwick

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8th August 2022

Train services on some key routes will be disrupted during the August bank holiday weekend due to engineering work.
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Green machines at sixty

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Alex Bestwick

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2nd August 2022

Following the pictorial celebration of 60 years of British Railways’ Brush Type 4 , we once more delve into the Mortons Archive for a selection of images of the locos in their original two-tone BR green liveries.
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Nothing duff about these Co-Cos

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Alex Bestwick

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1st August 2022

To celebrate 60 years of British Railways’ Brush Type 4 diesel electric locos (later designated Class 47), we present a small selection of images from the Mortons Archive.
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Rail plans for North should be reconsidered to avoid missed opportunity, say MPs

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Alex Bestwick

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27th July 2022

A controversial Government plan for rail schemes in the North and Midlands should be “reconsidered” to avoid a “missed opportunity”, MPs have warned.
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HS2 tunnelling machine ‘Dorothy’ becomes first to complete its journey

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Alex Bestwick

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26th July 2022

One of the giant machines digging the tunnels for HS2 has become the first on the project to complete the full journey underground.
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How will this week’s rail strike affect services?

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Alex Bestwick

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25th July 2022

More rail strikes are set to take place this week, causing misery for passengers.
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All change at the LTM

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Darren Hendley

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25th May 2022

Christopher Westcott talks to Wendy Neville, the former head of communications at the London Transport Museum, about how things changed […]
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Paddington rail crash remembered 21 years on

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Sam Hewitt

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5th October 2020

A service is to be held to mark the 20th anniversary of the Paddington train crash which killed 31 people.
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Train named to honour NHS fundraiser Captain Tom Moore

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Sam Hewitt

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29th April 2020

Captain Tom Moore, the veteran who raised more than £29 million for NHS Charities Together to mark his 100th birthday, has had a Great Western Railway Intercity train named in his honour.
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