PATHFINDER Tours’April 14‘One Way Wizzo’proveda to beawinning combination for all as crowds descended to catchaglimpse of the Diesel Traction Group’s Class 52 D1015 Western Champion on its first public main line outing since December 2016. With a tra

WHEN Vintage Trains recreates WR 4-6-0 No. 7029 Clun Castle’s record-breaking trip from Bristol to Plymouth 60 years ago, there will bea GoPro camera on the front of the locomotive to record any incidents of trespass. The two-day trip,‘The Great West

TRIBUTES have been paid to Julie Bates, who became the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s first full-time administration employee when appointed in 1990, following her death at the age of 62 while on holiday in Aruba in the Dutch Caribbean. Julie is s

POP producer PeteWaterman and a team of fellow enthusiasts have set a new Guinness record for building the world’s biggest portable model railway. The feat was achieved by Pete and the Railnuts team at the Model World Live event at the National Exhib

THE Bala Lake Railway has launched a fresh attempt to win the green light for its long-awaited extension into Bala town centre. As reported in Heritage Railway issue 306, the Snowdonia National Park Authority refused permission for the extension over

WHEN editor Robin Jones launched Heritage Railway magazinea quarter ofa century ago, little might he have imagined that the magazine would be here and still going strong in 2024. The fact that it is here and thriving is testament to the entire team,

BRISTOL Museums has relaunched Have A Go experiences, which offers opportunities to operate steam locomotives and restored cranes at the city’s docks. One-to-one tuition will allow participants to take control of Peckett 0-6-0ST No. 1940 of 1937 Henb

VOLUNTEERS of the Urie Locomotive Society and Mid-Hants Railway were in mourning after the group’s chairman, Mark Pedley, died on April 12, aged just 65, after losing his fight against cancer. Mark could regularly be found working at Ropley on the so

FOR most of us steam era trainspotters, our scruffy notebooks went into the bin once they had served their purpose and ‘cops’had been underlined in our Ian Allan ABCs. Some of us kept the detailed logs of trains at certain stations – and 65 years lat

TYSELEY-BASED Vintage Trains is fitting central door locking to its traditional carriages and is able and prepared to run some of its trains free of a diesel tail gunner, as it is not using stock which requires power for air conditioning and lighting

WANTED Your lighter takes If you’ve got a quirky photo,tale, poem, oranything elseyou think might be appropriate, please email staff writer Owen Hayward on ohayward@mortons.co.uk HE is knowntopull the crowds andhas inspired ageneration of enthusiasts

ON April 17, a shunt of the Stainmore Railway Company’s Kirkby Stephen East site saw NER luggage third clerestory No. 818 emerge into the daylight. Having undergone an extensive restoration by the railway’s volunteers, with assistance from external c

THE Severn Valley Railway has won the UK Transport Award’s Best Regional Heritage Railway Attraction for 2024. The awards scheme is run by SME News, a quarterly digital publication aimed at small to medium-sized businesses. Awards are given to commen