The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has launched a major volunteer recruitment campaign to fill hundreds of varied roles across the organisation, as it prepares for its 2022 season opening in April.
It is not often the name of a railway locomotive becomes adopted as an everyday saying in the English language, but many believe that happened in the case of the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive. Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones has the story.
The Severn Valley Railway has launched a competition to find a new name for one of its heritage steam locomotives, in honour of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee next year.
Christmas is just around the corner, meaning it’s the perfect time to grab a last-minute gift for the Railway enthusiasts in your life, or even for yourself as an early Christmas treat!
A £25,000 appeal has been launched to help fund the restoration of the tender belonging to a unique Victorian T3 class locomotive to assist its return to steam.
Author Brian Lamber writes: “My hobby has been model railways for many years since I was given a Tri-ang Princess Elizabeth train set for Christmas as an eight-year-old schoolboy.
The history and the remarkable rebuilding of the former section of the Great Western Railway from Broadway to Cheltenham Racecourse by the volunteer-led Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway has been well documented.
