Heritage Railway - 2021-11-23

• What happens when they want their railway back?
• Headline News
• ELR's new digital presence is a ‘real game-changer'
• East Lancashire honours long-serving volunteers
• Weardale trains may run into Darlington
• Louth from the south fails – but what about Mablethorp­e?
• Grant could see Oswestry to Gobowen passenger service at last
• Churnet Valley Railway might get main line link
• Renewed push for Anglesey revival
• Plans revealed for Darlington rail heritage quarter to mark S&D 200 anniversar­y
• Cylinder and driving wheels cast for new County 4-4-0
• Steam test for P2 alternator at Darlington Locomotive Works
• Environmen­t Bill ‘will have no impact on steam’
• WIN A FREE CAB OR FOOTPLATE RIDE
• Dinmore Manor in first visit to South Devon Railway
• Minehead will be back on line in 2022
• £200,000 appeal to repair bridge over the ‘GlosWarks’ line
• G5 brake appeal is two-thirds of the way to target
• Toddington and NNR beat 2019 ticket figures
• Bahamas all set for big-screen stardom
• Machining of ‘Night Owl' cylinders nears completion
• Ffestiniog Railway closes until March to catch up on winter maintenanc­e
• Grant boost for Corfe Castle station museum
• Caledonian 0-6-0 No. 828 to visit Spa Valley Railway next year
• Autumn freight on the Rheidol
• Rother Valley seeks go-ahead for work on part of missing link
• Severn Valley Railway to run programme of evening carol trains to Highley
• New contractor for NYMR bridge work appointed
• North Norfolk embarks on carriage refresh scheme
• Peckett Rocket stars at Dean Forest’s 50th anniversar­y
• Revived Llangollen is in ‘healthy financial state with no debts’ – trust
• Deal is reached for No. 5164 to join Erlestoke Manor Fund
• Shenfield Shark up for grabs
• SVR Standard 4MT for Epping Ongar Railway’s 2022 anniversar­y event
• Quainton Road now end of line
• Passenger services restart at Bideford station after 15 years
• German museum restores 1897 Austrian locomotive
• New Corris Falcon is on track for September 2022 steaming
• Unique Altrincham electric pair in new £40,000 appeal
• Cranking up recorded memories in a first for any museum in Ireland
• Donations for Horsted Keynes appeal pass the halfway mark
• Grant will transform Llanelli GWR goods shed into a heritage centre
• ‘Terrier’ steals the show on rival Great Western territory
• King’s Cross plaque commemorat­es Britain’s first black train driver
• New London Transport Museum exhibition opens door on Caribbean contributi­on to city transport
• Wells railway’s 45-year reign ends despite public petition
• Final push to complete overhaul of 5552 at Bodmin next Easter
• Ruth officially handed over to Ravenglass & Eskdale
• Land purchase helps pave Poppy Line way into Holt
• Engine overhaul commences on Moorsline’s Helen Turner diesel
• Restructur­e planned at Bodmin & Wenford Railway
• Revivalist­s honoured for 120 years of combined service
• NRM prepares planning bid for proposed new Central Hall
• Diesel loco days on offer in 2022 as events programme is announced
• ‘Home' for Christmas: No. 80078 in return visit to Swanage Railway
• 80104 heads to Tyseley for overhaul
• Tube train becomes Santa’s grotto as ‘new’ units take over Island Line
• ‘Birdcage’ restoratio­n is set to recreate lost IoW carriage type
• First Class 317 EMU car enters preservati­on at East Anglian Railway Museum
• Cuneo print helps Great Central reunificat­ion project
• Hunslet expert Donald’s 60 years’ IMechE service honoured at Middleton
• Talisman announces return to saleroom railwayana auction
• ‘Black Five’ bows out as 777’s boiler is lifted
• £700 raised for charity as wagon is sold for Speedlink recreation
• KESR remembers the adults with new Christmas trains
• Council awards contract to commence Poole Park miniature railway rebuild
• Duke of Gloucester drives the latest restored tram at Crich museum
• First three ‘clay hoods'nearing completion at Bodmin works
• RAISING THE ROOF AT BRIDGNORTH
• Saphos festive steam season starts with a sell-out excursion to Chesterfie­ld
• Lickey to be tackled solo minus banker
• UK Railtours back on track
• Steam Dreams ‘Santafied’ at well-filled trips from Victoria
• Scotsman ‘stopped’ by fractured pipe
• Britannia boiler goes back in its frames at Crewe
• Pathfinder Tours hit yet again by DB Cargo crew shortage
• RTC to start the year with ‘Cumbrian Mountain Express’
• Santa trains to run from Belfast – but not out of Dublin this time
• Jubilees on steam specials approachin­g Hathersage – 54 years apart!
• Totem beats expectatio­ns and smokeboxes find new homes after 49 years
• GWR, BR and modern traction in Great Central head-to-head
• Princess lives up to star billing and leaves a knight in her wake
• ‘Buy & Go' sale brings the curtain down on GWRA's 2021 season
• Bury St Edmunds in the auction spotlight
• 1916 GWR plan is chart-topper ahead of 1950s steam
• Filly gallops first past the post ahead of public school and Spanish old-timer
• Railwayana Auction Calendar
• Diesels and German railbus return in Heljan’s 2022 range
• Nigel Gresley’s mighty Mikados – and more!
• All Aboard! Rememberin­g Britain’s Railways
• London’s Great Railway Stations
• Five Decades in the Forest: Celebratin­g 50 years of the Dean Forest Railway
• Preserved Shunters
• Locomotive­s & Recollecti­ons: No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland
• East Lancashire Railway in the 1990s
• MOD Railways
• The Leader Locomotive: Bulleid's Great Experiment
• How A Steam Locomotive Works
• Lion: The Story of the Real Titfield Thunderbol­t
• 6201 Princess Elizabeth
• Steam in the Family
• The Story of Black Prince: How Art Saved A Spaceship
• The Big British Railways Journeys Puzzle Book
• Corris Railway Christmas cards
• Talyllyn Railway 2022 calendar and Christmas cards
• Diesel and Electric Preservati­on Group 2022 calendar
• Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Christmas card
• Thompson’s B1s – in the shadows of yesteryear but much admired
• Profession­als should run our heritage lines
• Heritage railways must be run as businesses
• Could we build an even more Modified Hall?
• The ‘other’ Mumbles railway uncovered
• Rememberin­g Ted Watkinson outside railway preservati­on
• Who should pay for the repairs to Honeybourn­e extension bridges?
• Railway Museums
• 92134 on the GC – even more authentic than we thought

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