Around 30m (32yds) of the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) track and track bed was damaged in a landslip on 30 January. A section of the track is impassable after the embankment collapsed about 300m (328yds) north of Sterns on the Shropshire section of the line. The affected area lies between SVR’s northern terminus station at…
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Save the Date for Railway 200 Says HRA
The Heritage Railway Association (HRA) is appealing to heritage railways, tramways, and museums up and down the UK to build the 200th anniversary of the Stockton and Darlington Railway into their plans. With exactly two years to go until the anniversary of the famous opening of the railway linking coal mines in the Shildon area with…
Wave of Vandalism Hits Heritage Railways
This spring has seen a series of vandalsim incidents on hertiager railways across England. Heritage railways are paricualrly vulnerable to such occurances due to the difficulrly of secure long linear transport industrial monuments which can run for many kilometers. The focus for such attcks is often the goods yard where rolling stock and locmotives are…
Historic England To Object ‘in the strongest terms’ to London’s Liverpool Street Station Redevelopment
Historic England will object in the strongest terms to current proposals to redevelop London’s Liverpool Street Station. The scheme proposes a giant new building above the existing station and the neighbouring Great Eastern Hotel, both listed buildings set within the heart of the City. It also proposes far-reaching redevelopment of the station complex. Historic England note that ‘The…
Keighley Heritage Railway Trials Boost Bio-coal Progress
The first ever trial of bio-coal in a full size, standard gauge, locomotive took place on February 14 2022. The trials, featuring British Railways Standard ‘2MT’ 2-6-0 No. 78022, were conducted on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. They pitted a trial batch of Homefire Ecoal, developed by CPL Industries Ltd for use in steam locomotives,…
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