Heritage Railway - 2022-10-25

• A national icon treasured by all
• Headline News
• Lancashire glory revisited
• Flying Scotsman centenary events: the complete list so far
• Flying Scotsman arrives in Swanage for three-week holiday on the coast
• Stradbally steam locomotive ‘first’ to run passenger train on biofuel
• Half barriers will be installed for Strathspey level crossing
• New Standard 3MT gets its tanks – then a repaint
• India’s steam locomotive that uses diesel oil to operate – and not coal!
• Bratton Fleming to get new goods shed
• ‘Thornbury Castle could be rebuilt’ – only if a group buys its spare parts
• ‘Lost’ Finnish locomotive is uncovered... in Sudbury!
• Project helps Talyllyn aim for net zero carbon emissions
• Raising the Standards at Bluebell Giants weekend
• Lottery £110k grant made for Talyllyn improvemen­t plans
• New-build NER K class project launched for Beamish Museum – a decade on
• Two Swanage Railway founders return after 50 years to lay flowers at volunteer memorial
• Major financial boost for railcar that is ‘integral’ to future of the KESR
• Schools out for autumn!
• A1 Trust’s £75k fundraisin­g appeal to connect new works
• Model Tornado helps overhaul the real one!
• Stockton & Darlington bicentenia­l logo launched
• Seasonal show of autumn gold in the Cotswolds
• Bluebell to use £700k grant to boost green credential­s
• ‘Fuss-free’ coaches set to boost Moorsline accessibil­ity
• Farewell said to former Severn Valley supremo Michael Draper
• Austerity Errol Londsale back in service in Belgium
• Burton brewery centre relics ‘safe’ – council
• Could the MidNorfolk serve an entirely new town in future?
• UK’s newest steam loco debut as Alan Keef marks 50 years
• Great community award for Great Little Trains
• Fresh warning as controvers­ial East Lancashire commuter proposal is submitted to Whitehall
• Former Sellafield shunter donated to Chasewater
• Expat’s family link as icon crosses Sydney Harbour Bridge for first time
• Lost engine loses boiler – for now
• New Bluebell safety director is appointed
• Charitable status boost for Rail Trolley Trust
• Bygones farewells
• Talyllyn turns Great Eastern blue!
• Red Wheel plaque honours pioneer status of first-ever volunteer-run line
• Everything Goes at Devon Railway Centre – the perfect place for family fun!
• Race the Train makes a return after two-year rest
• Gresley prototype worksplate to go under the hammer
• Gwili’s vintage four-wheelers break cover ahead of 2023 debut
• Connemara Railway welcomes its first Irish standard gauge coach
• Class 50 Alliance marks 30 years
• Ex-Stratford footplate crews travel from afar for annual nostalgia
• County of Glamorgan with boiler in place for first time
• High Speed Train is renamed on the Severn Valley Railway
• New management structure for the Mid-Norfolk in time for New Year
• Boiler returns for Shillingst­one Yugoslavia­n-built ‘USA tank’
• Restoring the pier railway coach that carried a king!
• Drive a steam train from Donegal to Stranorlar after 63 years... in a replica cab!
• Glasses raised on NYMR train in memory of longlost 4-6-0 with brewery link
• Campaigner­s axe judicial review bid to stop York museum’s expansion
• Foyle Valley museum’s interpreta­tion centre opening ‘a step forward’
• Victorian Edinburgh tramway clock is turning back time
• NELPG gets £124k grant for Joem’s boiler repairs
• Great Central stations make way for HS2 developmen­t
• Riley to assemble Churchward County wheelsets
• HRA broadens annual awards scope
• Major conference to discuss the biggest threats to sector
• After a spring and summer
• Farewell for South Devon S&T expert Nick Perring
• TV star Swanscombe back in action at Fifefield site
• Seasonal show for Norfolk’s timeless seaside trains
• Chairman appointed at Cholsey
• Plym Valley Class 03 for sale
• Two more 1940s events are cancelled over Ukraine war
• Duke of Gloucester now set for mid-2023 return to steam
• New date and new route for the delayed Class 56 farewell
• ‘Cumbrian Mountain Express’ dates are announced for the New Year
• Brunel’s Sydney Gardens wall gets a facelift while safety and anti-trespass precaution­s are improved
• The Holly and the Hoover date is set
• Falklands anniversar­y tribute with name change and Armistice Day special
• Steam Dreams announces ‘Santa Steam Express’ dates for this December
• Uncertain future for the Caledonian Sleeper service
• Grant aid boost for Bideford reinstatem­ent proposal
• Historic East Coast route halfway sign is restored by Network Rail
• Okehampton revival marked by special day
• ‘Awkward Week’ lost tracks railtour!
• The 1935 Undergroun­d train from Holborn is now arriving at Aldwych...
• Lots of lots, but prices hold steady
• Scottish-built Jubilee and Swindonbui­lt Grange are stars of GNRA sale
• Totems from four regions dominate
• Strong GWR presence in models sale
• Railwayana Auction Calendar
• From LMS and LNER to standard and narrow gauge in poster sale
• Nutickets interviews the HRA’s chief executive Steve Oates
• LANCASHIRE GLORY REVISITED
• Hornby launches TT:120 range
• Rapido at its ‘Peaks’
• No need to quarry – the latest Peco 009 gauge coaches have arrived!
• GREAT CENTRAL GALA AND THE BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE
• Support the Friends
• Swedish museum treasures tell us much about UK Beyer Peacocks
• More about that Beyer Peacock tank in Ukraine...
• Thornbury Castle must be restored – but as itself
• Prospects for rail reopening projects in Derbyshire
• Thornbury Castle scheme is ‘heritage vandalism’
• Return of Warley
• Railway Museums
• Yorkshire boys raise a laugh at NYMR festival with locomotive headboard
• Iconic composer pays a visit to Kent

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