CLASS 50 No. 50017 Royal Oak has been acquired by the Great Central Railway (GCR) from Boden Rail, Eastcroft, Nottingham.  This followed a few days when

CLASS 46 No. 46010 has been overhauled at GCR(N) Ruddington under contract by ‘Peak’ experts, the Pioneer Diesel Locomotive Group. It is owned by D05 Preservation

CLASS 24 No. D5054 Phil Southern returned to traffic during the East Lancashire Railway’s (ELR) Sulzer Theme Day on February 16.  It has undergone a heavy

WORK to boost capacity on the Lee Valley route in north-east London is on schedule for completion by May 2019.  The £170million programme of work

NETWORK Rail has replaced switches and crossings at Southerham Junction, near Lewes, which controls access to the Seaford branch.  New signalling equipment was also installed

LIVERPOOL’S recently upgraded Lime Street station is the highest rated of Britain’s major stations by passengers in the latest National Passenger Rail Survey.  Scoring a

A TWO-YEAR, £13million renovation project is underway on one of Scotland’s busiest railway bridges.  The 200 metre-long Clyde Bridge on the approach to Glasgow Central

REOPENING 33 sections of railway across Britain could bring 500,000 more people within walking distance of a main line station, generating an extra 20 million