NETWORK Rail has discovered that additional work will be needed to safeguard the future of the Settle and Carlisle line’s Grade II-listed Ribblehead Viaduct, which, as previously reported, has been undergoing a £2.1 million restoration. Stone blockwo

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THE Dartmouth Steam Railway & River Boat Company’s sales and marketing executive, Sereny Damon, steamed into an Unsung Hero Award at the Devon Tourism Awards 2020/21 online ceremony. Sereny’s railway story starts back in the 1970s when her grandfat

HALTED for a lengthy period last year when the National Railway Museum’s workshop was in lockdown, work on the heavy overhaul of the Sir Nigel Gresley Locomotive Trust’s A4 4-6-2 No. 60007 has recommenced on a ‘slow line’. Although access to the work

ON behalf of the Corris Railway, may I seek your help in passing on our thanks for two donations we have received from a person who has provided no contact details to allow us to formally thank them directly. I believe these donations may have follow

DESTINED, the charity for children and adults with learning difficulties which took over the Foyle Valley Railway Museum from Derry & Strabane District Council in 2016, has published details of how it will develop the narrow gauge railway museum over

SORRY, but I have to disagree with nearly every point David Holt makes in his Star Letter ‘Will steam preservation also move into the past’ (Platform, issue 278). If we look at how railway preservation has developed over the last 50 years – numerous

AMID concern from the heritage sector about the availability of steam coal in the UK, a Government minister has said it is a matter for the individual organisations to source. The comment arose in a written answer on March 23 after Paul Maynard MP

GWR Churchward 4-4-0 No. 3840 County of Montgomery could be based on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – once a regular haunt for the class. A new agreement between the Cotswold heritage line and locomotive builder the Churchward County Trust

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WITH donations to the project approaching £4 million, the pony truck frame for new Gresley P2 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales has been delivered to The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust’s Darlington Locomotive Works after being fabricated by North View Engine

THE East Lancashire Railway has announced plans for a major restoration and development of its Buckley Wells locomotive and carriage works site. An application for planning permission lodged with Bury Metropolitan Borough Council includes the resto

THE Severn Valley Railway’s renowned 1940s weekends are set to return this summer after being cancelled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Step Back To The 1940s events, a prominent feature of the railway’s diary for more than 20 years, will

➜ FFESTINIOG Railway England 0-4-0STT No. 1 Prince is to visit the Statfold Barn Railway for its June 12-13 Trangkil 50 Gala. The event will celebrate the half centenary of Hunslet 0-4-2ST No. 3902 of 1971 Trangkil No.4, the last steam locomotive bui