The UK’s oldest train fleet is to be replaced through a £26 million investment into the Isle of Wight’s railway, the Government has announced.
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Five things you may not know about the Big Boy
Here’s five things you perhaps didn’t know about the Union Pacific Railroad Big Boy 4-8-8-4…
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Archive: Open day at Barrow Hill
As printed from the January 1972 edition of The Railway Magazine, take a look at this story by Peter A Hogarth about the Barrow Hill roundhouse.
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The death of Sir Nigel Gresley
The death of Sir Nigel Gresley at Hertford on April 5, deprived the railway mechanical engineering profession of one of its most distinguished personalities.
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A curious railway accident
A curious railway accident, as reported in The Railway Magazine, March 1900.
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From the archive: Building for the future
Ben Jones visits Bridgnorth to discover how the Severn Valley Railway is investing in new facilities to cope with ever-increasing visitor numbers.
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UK railway news round-up
Welcome to The Railway Hub’s weekly round-up of the latest railway news.
Read moreRailway accidents: Curve of unintended outcome
A severe curve on the East Coast Main Line located at the Northumberland town of Morpeth became infamous after two railway accidents within 15 years.
Read moreOne in three rail services run late in the UK
Hull Trains has worst and c2c the best record under new measurements, data shows.
Read moreFive things you may not know about the Big Boy
Here’s five things you perhaps didn’t know about the Union Pacific Railroad Big Boy 4-8-8-4…
Read moreThe Lasting Legacy of Preservation’s ‘Mystery’ Man
Peter Rampton – a man who spent a lifetime saving locomotives and reviving railways, but who remained an enigma to many.
Read moreUK’s oldest train fleet to be replaced
The UK’s oldest train fleet is to be replaced through a £26 million investment into the Isle of Wight’s railway, the Government has announced.
Read moreOperation ‘Javelin’
Class 395 ‘Javelin’ charter trains have raised more than £125,000 for the Royal British Legion’s Poppy Appeal. With this year’s Remembrance Day only two months away, Doug Lindsay takes up the story. The history of
Read moreCountry Railway Routes: Ambergate to Buxton
By Vic Mitchell and Keith Smith MIDDLETON’S ever-expanding library of regional railway histories has found its way to the much-loved – and much-missed – Midland Railway (MR) main line between Ambergate and Buxton. Parts of
Read moreBath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled
Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.
Read moreDinmore Manor makes it a Western 4-6-0 pair for Battlefield Line’s October gala
LEICESTERSHIRE’S Battlefield Line has further cemented its reputation as an unofficial GWR outpost by securing a return visit from No. 7820 Dinmore Manor for its 50th anniversary gala on October 18-20. The ‘Manor’ becomes the
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