Heritage

The world’s first preserved railway is one of 50 heritage and steam railways across the UK that is receiving support from a leading independent lubricants company. The seven-mile Talyllyn Railway, which has been running for 155 years from Tywyn on...

A 150-year-old bronze statue of railway pioneer Robert Stephenson has been removed and put into safe storage while Euston station undergoes its major HS2 redevelopment. The Grade-II listed monument to Robert, the son of ‘father of the railways’ George Stephenson,...

The Vale of Rheidol (VoR) Railway has finished construction of its new Museum collection and heritage rolling stock protection shed at its Aberystwyth terminus. The £531,000 structure can accommodate the equivalent of 36 VoR bogie carriages on its three roads...

News that the Severn Valley Railway will receive £906,000 from the Culture Recovery Fund to help it through the next six months came as the SVR welcomed Minister for Sport, Tourism and Heritage Nigel Huddlestone MP. He visited the heritage...

Teams from Network Rail have carried out improvement work on Skerne Bridge in Darlington, the oldest railway bridge in the world in continuous use, before its 195th anniversary this weekend. They have removed plants and weeds which were growing out...

A £600,000 restoration project on Preston station’s glazed frontage has seen the North side of the 140-year-old station transformed with new glazing and a specially designed window frame system. The wooden frames on the listed building were last upgraded in...

Network Rail has acquired ‘Bristol Old Station’, the iconic Grade I listed building, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, that was Bristol’s first railway station when it opened in 1840 as the western terminus of the Great Western Railway from...

The station building at Dent - England’s highest mainline railway station - has been purchased by the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line (FoSCL). Standing at 1,200 ft above sea level, and situated on the western slopes of the Pennines and...

The heritage Churnet Valley Railway has announced that it will reopen on 1 August 2020 with a post-Lockdown steam-hauled train timetable, refurbished coaches and, for ‘one- night- only’, a special curry train.  As the Covid-19 lockdown eases after four months,...

The National Railway Museum is reopening after 119 days of lockdown. Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham, will reopen on Tuesday 28 July and the main National Railway Museum site in York the following week, on Tuesday 4 August. Both sites have...