AN ELECTRIC locomotive which played an early part in the fall of communism in Poland is being restored to main line operating condition by enthusiasts in Warsaw. The city’s Klub Sympatyków Kolei we Wrocławiu (Railway Sympathisers Club) is raising m

PROGRESS on the building of new BR Clan Pacific No. 72010 Hengistat CTL Seal’s factory in Sheffield has continued during lockdown, with orders placed for key components. The front bogie wheel tyres and axles have been ordered by the project’s contrac

ORIGINAL drawings by GWR engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel are being made available by the University of Bristol for the public to view online thanks to a £250,000 investment in digitisation equipment. The university’s Special Collections includes the

INCREASING interest among model railway enthusiasts across several generations has led to one of the country’s specialist auction houses expanding its staff and boosting the number of sales it holds each year. Lacy Scott & Knight (LSK), a 152-year-ol

The early years of the new millennium saw members of the Royal Family travel on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway on two separate occasions. The first occurred on August 20, 2001, when the Duke of Edinburgh drove W24 Calbourne from Havenstreet to Woott

IN 2019, Heritage Railway published a letter from myself, directing readers’ attention to a proposed housing development in the fields surrounding Digswell viaduct in Welwyn. I am sure readers will be familiar with this picturesque and historic site.

THE return of BR Pacific No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester to Britain’s operational main line steam fleet took a step forward at the end of January following the delivery of steel for the new crank axle and crank pin. Buckfastleigh-based South Devon Railw

GREAT Western Railway managing director Mark Hopwood CBE has accepted an invitation to become president of the Cholsey & Wallingford Railway. Mark lives nearby to Wallingford and has said that he hopes to be involved in as many activities as possib

STICK, The Scottish Transport & Industry Collections Network, is to place the future of fossil fuels in heritage transport under the microscope at an online event on Thursday, April 22. The body’s membership includes the Museum of Scottish Railways,

BASSETT-LOWKE scooped the top three places in a Vectis model train and railway books sale on January 15, with the charge being led by an O-gauge three-rail electric LMS No. 6100 Royal Scot that went for £950, followed at £750 by another O-gauge model

TYSELEY Locomotive Works is going full steam ahead to have GWR Castle 4-6-0 No. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe ready for the summer season following overhaul. As reported in issue 275, the locomotive is scheduled to haul Vintage Trains’‘Shakespeare Expr

SOON after Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid succeeded Richard Maunsell as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway in 1937, he and his drawing room team were tasked with designing a new and powerful class of locomotive to cope with the railway’s

BACHMANN’S new OO gauge Hawksworth 0-6-0PT model is now available , as is the version of preserved No. 9400 specially commissioned by Locomotion Models. The popular ‘94XX’ class pannier tank was effectively the last GWR designed steam locomotive. The

SEVERAL heritage railways have issued public safety warnings about trespassing on tracks while services are suspended during lockdown. East Lancashire Railway chairman Mike Kelly said that walking on the line remains dangerous as maintenance trains

THESE beautiful pictures recall the first Christmas that would-be revivalists had access to the by-then largely-lifted GWR Stratford-upon-Avon to Cheltenham main line. I recall the closure of the route by BR in 1976, and subsequent reports which ra