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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The current lockdown due to Coronavirus is having a major impact on heritage railways. Events have been cancelled, depriving both enthusiasts of a great...
Transport secretary Grant Shapps has called for some 'beechinged' lines to be reopened - but which ones?
Reopening a closed railway line is expensive and...
Refurbishment of a historic railway footbridge has been completed at New Mills Newtown station in the Derbyshire Peak District.
The stairs and overbridge were strengthened...
A National Lottery grant of £853,800 to repair the Falling Sands Viaduct in Kidderminster will "safeguard" Severn Valley Railway's (SVR) future.
Director Shelagh Paterson...
Visitors to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) are now able to donate using contactless donation boxes.
The first machine has been placed at Pickering...
A records assistant at Network Rail's archive in York has stumbled across a notebook with George Stephenson's plans for the world's first locomotive-driven passenger...
London Underground's Victoria line is celebrating its 50th birthday with a series of special events along the route.
The first phase of the line between...
The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Heritage Rail (APPGHR) wants the law changing to legally allow under 16s to volunteer on heritage railways.
APPGHR describes the Employment...
Archaeologists have been able to determine the age of a footpath which was uncovered in Birmingham’s Victoria Square during works to extend the Midland...
Victorian Britain witnessed the creation of a 20,000 route mile national railway network, of which about 10,000 route miles remain today as an operational...
