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Alstom’s Greatest Gathering leaves a lasting legacy

Alstom’s landmark Railway 200 celebration, The Greatest Gathering, has delivered a powerful legacy beyond the tracks, raising more than £100,000 for charities and heritage...

Alstom celebrates Scotland’s rail legacy

In this milestone year we have seen communities, companies, and enthusiasts across the UK unite to celebrate 200 years since the birth of the...

Private operators under scrutiny

Colin Wheeler A  combination of new safety concerns amongst those operating and maintaining privately-owned railways, and concerns for volunteers working on railways, are at the...

Derby’s greatest gathering

David Shirres In its 150-year history, it is unlikely that the 90-acre railway workshops at Derby Litchurch Lane has ever welcomed 40,000 people over a...

Minding the Gap for biodiversity

HRE's ‘Minding the Gap’ programme could change the way brownfield sites are assessed for biodiversity and reconnect fragmented habitats. The Historical Railways Estate (HRE) is...

Time capsule restored for future generations

Network Rail has worked with the Railway Heritage Trust (RHT) to restore the site of a time capsule at Hambleton, near Selby. On Tuesday 11...

150 years of history

A railway booking office clerk from Buckinghamshire has spoken about her family's incredible 150-year association with the rail industry on the latest edition of...

Expert commentary: Richard Hines, ORR

Richard Hines stepped up to the role of HM Chief Inspector of Railways / Director of Railway Safety at the Office of Rail and...

Railway 200: Searching for the UK’s oldest railway family

A nationwide heritage hunt launched on Monday 9 December to discover the person with the longest-serving railway family.  Could it be you or one...

Recurring themes in recent accidents and incidents

Colin Wheeler There has been some late or maybe lack of reporting of trapped and dragged incidents by London Underground. Some time ago trams were...

‘The Peaks and Dales Line’: Bringing relief on a congested network

Stephen Chaytow of the Manchester and East Midlands Rail Action Partnership, makes an updated and strengthened case for reinstatement of the Peaks and Dales...

ORR offers further recommendations

Following on from ORR’s letter to Andrew Haines, the chief executive of Network Rail, in the past two months the regulator has issued further...

Helen Smith to leave the Severn Valley Railway

The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) has announced that its managing director Helen Smith will leave the organisation in the next few months, to take...

Great Musgrave – The inside track

Graeme Bickerdike There are hundreds of old railway bridges much like the one at Great Musgrave in Cumbria’s Eden Valley. The structure emerged from the...

Reinstating the ‘Peaks and Dales line’

Stephen Chaytow of the Manchester and East Midlands Rail Action Partnership (MEMRAP) discusses the group's campaign to restore and upgrade 'the peaks and dales...

“Wrecking Ball Act” threatens future of historic bridge

Unrest is brewing in an East Sussex village over National Highways’ plan to infill a historic railway bridge within a conservation area. The state-owned roads...

Nine centuries of history uncovered by HS2

Archaeologists working to prepare the UK for HS2, have begun unlocking almost 900 years of history at St Mary’s Church in Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire. The...

Railway heritage at risk from Highways England’s “wrecking ball”

Hundreds of potentially useful disused railway structures are threatened with demolition or infilling by Highways England under plans described by one campaigner as “finishing...