Liverpool Lime Street, Carlisle & return. Steam-hauled: Liverpool Lime Street, Carlisle, Carnforth. Loco: No. 60103 Flying Scotsman. WCR Ealing Broadway, York & return. Steam-hauled: Ealing Broadway, York. Loco: No. 60163 Tornado. RTC Cleethorpes

THE Kent & East Sussex Railway has made a major step into the era of ‘green’technology with the ongoing £250,000 restoration of the kitchen car for its crowd-pulling Wealden Pullman dining train. BR Mk.1 coach No. RU1987 was purchased from the Bluebe

THE Scottish Railway Preservation Society (SRPS) has launched a £250,000 ‘Keep Our Train on the Main Line’ appeal to raise money to keep its 14 Mk.1 coaches on the national network. During the last five years, the society has overhauled all of the bo

THE long road to reconstruction of the now unique LNERThomas William Worsdell J21 (NER C) 0-6-0 No. 65033 - following the extensive stripping down which began in September 2019 - is now underway at the Locomotive Maintenance Services Ltd (LMSL) works

SERVICES across the heritage sector may have come to a complete standstill due to Covid-19 restrictions, but that did not stop its latest locomotive to be restored from running for the first time in preservation. February 5 saw Peter Best’s Mancheste

AROUND 80,000 people watched the start of the Isle of Wight Steam Railway’s 50th anniversary celebrations on January 24 – but very few of them were on the island for the occasion. With the UK in lockdown and local coronavirus infection rates rising –

THE NorthYorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) is set to be the first line to run showpiece LNER Beavertail observation car No.1729 – the subject of one of the most impressive carriage restorations in the 70-year history of the heritage sector. The NYMR, ho

A RESTORED station barrow, once used to move parcels and luggage on Northern Ireland’s Omagh station platform, has given a local railway heritage project a push forward. The barrow, of a type to be found throughout the steam-age British and Irish rai

A BROAD gauge station designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel which faced demolition will have a new lease of life this summer as the centrepiece of a major regeneration project in the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe. The station opened in 1854 as t

THE Bala Lake Railway’s £2.5 million town extension could hold a vital key to the post-lockdown revival of the tourist sector in central Wales, chairman Julian Birley believes. Bringing the 2ft gauge line into Bala would regenerate the town as a time

THE Mid-Hants Railway attracted more than 15,000 visitors during its Steam Illuminations event, which saw 13,000 programmable lights covering the locos and carriages during the December 4-23 sell-out services. Passengers also wore LED wristbands whic

NONE of us has a crystal ball to tell when passenger trains will return to our heritage railways, but the Severn Valley Railway is being positive in its outlook, announcing plans for a Spring Steam Up. It will take place for four days from April 15,

John Beckett toured the Southern Region of British Railways from its easternmost point to its western extremity and captured a geographical cross-section of its finest steam in action in its final decade. He has raided his extensive archive to compil