THE Bodmin & Wenford Railway’s (B&WR) proposal to install a second platform at its Bodmin General headquarters has received a huge financial boost from main line operator GWR. The Bodmin & Wenford Railway Trust’s £295,000
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In our latest visit to the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), The Railway Magazine meets its youngest apprentice.
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TWO of 12 GWR Class 387 110mph EMUs to be branded in a new Heathrow Express livery were released from Ilford Works on May 22. Set Nos. 387130 and 387140 were hauled to Reading by ROG
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Words: Peter Nicholson Castle Cary station, Somerset, on the GWR’s West of England Main Line, has new station signs reading ‘Castle Cary Station of the Glastonbury Festival‘. The signs were officially dedicated on the morning
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Two more opportunities to ride behind Tyseley’s restored No. 7029 Clun Castle on June 9.
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The week of April 1-5 was an operations manager’s nightmare at the Bodmin & Wenford Railway as the only serviceable steam loco failed with a hot axle box on March 31.
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THE West Somerset Railway reopened on March 30 after a three-month winter closure. There was much celebration, but a lot of work is required and money spent to bring the railway back its former glory.
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THE Severn Valley Railway’s (SVR)season-opening Spring Steam Gala took place over the three days of March 15-17 It brought together a variety of tank engines of predominantly, but not exclusively, GWR origin with links to
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THANK you for the supplement sent with the March 2019 issue. Item 24 states the name Penrice Castle was carried by three separate members of the same class. That is true, but it also applies to eight other
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A THREE-WEEK closure of the West of England main line between Taunton and Exeter saw essential repairs made to two Victorian tunnels on the route.
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