FAULTS with the overhead Line at Crich Tramway Village led to the temporary closure of the Derbyshire attraction on Wednesday, May 18 following a scheduled inspection of the site by the Office of Rail and Road the previous day. Two traction poles sup

THE West Somerset Railway Heritage Trust in now getting underway with the restoration of GWRToplightTK Clerestory Coach No. 3639. The restoration team has moved No. 3639 from the end of an inaccessible siding at Williton, where it has been stored for

HERITAGE railways and real ale festivals have long gone together, but the Tunbridge Wells-based Spa Valley Railway has branched out to a new theme by teaming up with a local wine producer. Wildwood Vineyard, a familyowned business hidden away near th

AN APPEAL to replace a failed casting on Severn Valley Railway-based Port Talbot Railway/GWR 0-6-0ST No. 813 has been launched. During the successful April 21-24 spring steam gala, as featured last issue, No. 813 was the only failure. It occurred on

CROWDS flocked to the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway as it celebrated its 95th anniversary on May 14/15 with an intensive gala service that saw trains continue throughout the night. Known as‘Kent’s Mainline in Miniature’, the 13 ½-mile line that

THE Yorkshire Wolds Railway (YWR) has taken delivery of its first passenger-carrying coach in the form of Mk.2 TSO No. 6027, bought from Nemesis Rail. Arriving amid torrential downpours on March 4, it is the line’s second coach but only passenger-car

THE Mid-Hants Railway has appointed a new president. Air Vice Marshall Richard Lacey CBE MA recently stood down as chairman of Mid-Hants Railway Ltd after steering the company through major changes in governance. He will remain a trustee of the Water

THE 300th anniversary of the opening of Scotland’s oldest railway was marked on May 7. Members of the 1722 Waggonway Project held a ceremony on the course of the Tranent Cockenzie Waggonway’s trackbed to recall the opening of the pioneering line that

Don Benn looks at some of the locomotive performance on the Railway Touring Company’s Great Britain X1V tour, featuring LMS Jubilee Class 6 4-6-0s No. 45596 Bahamas double-heading with 45690 Leander, and LMS Princess Coronation pacific 6233 Duchess o

THE Swindon Railway Festival is to return to STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway on September 10 and 11. This year’s event will be held in memory of Owen Rees Gibbon, who, along with his brother John, was instrumental in helping to organise t

THE heritage railway sector joined in the nationwide patriotic celebrations to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Venues big and small staged their own tailor-made festivities, with the Severn Valley Railway offering a flagship locomotive for the eve

A SELECTION of 13 Big Four and BR nameplates from steam locomotives built between 1925 and 1953 will be the highlights of GW Railwayana’s July 9 auction, with the biggest contingent being seven from the GWR. These comprise Tretower Castle, Barry Cast

FOLLOWING the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon Museum closing (as reported in issue 293), Hudswell Clarke 0-4-0DM D1012 Cadbury No. 14 has been transferred to the Statfold Barn Railway for static display. Although it had been on show until recentl

WHEN one of the West Somerset Railway charities, the Steam Trust (now the WSR HeritageTrust) started a 20-year restoration of its GWR Victorian sleeping car No. 9038 back in the 1980s for display in the Gauge Museum at Bishops Lydeard, members knew t

AFTER announcing its first steam-hauled tour of the year on September 3, the ‘Cumbrian Fells Express’, Pathfinder Railtours is looking into using a wider range of heritage traction. The aim is to offer a greater variety of motive power on its trips,

THE Wensleydale Railway is advertising for a new general manager. The successful applicant to the hands-on position will be responsible for driving through change while protecting and preserving the railway’s heritage and respecting the vital role pl

INVITED guests attended a preview of Lincolnshire’s latest heritage centre on April 24 prior to its opening to booked parties. As highlighted in issue 288, the goods shed at Rippingale station on the Great Northern Railway’s Bourne and Sleaford line,