The National Railway Museum’s historic Station Hall will close temporarily in the New Year to enable urgent structural repairs to take place as part of the museum’s ambitious redevelopment plans.
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Flying Scotsman – the world’s most famous steam locomotive – made its first appearance in a year-long national programme of events to mark its centenary today at London King’s Cross Station.
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The world’s most famous steam locomotive, Flying Scotsman, is being prepared for its centenary celebrations next year.
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One of the giant machines digging the tunnels for HS2 has become the first on the project to complete the full journey underground.
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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was questioned on whether he still intended to take railways back into public ownership.
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Three new railway titles are now available to buy on the Mortons Books website – Railwaymen of the Welsh Valleys 1914-1967 Vol 2; More Memories of a Didcot Apprentice; and Stratford Depot Locomotives in the Eighties and Nineties
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This week’s Book of the Week tells the fascinating story of the UK’s ‘black diamonds’ from their origins to their role as the fuel that fired the Industrial Revolution: The Rise and Fall of King Coal…
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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.
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If you can be specific about Pacifics, know you’re A2s from your M62s and always mind your Manors, then we could have the job you’ve always been looking for. Mortons Media Group has an opportunity
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With climate change at the very top of the world’s agenda, and thousands of delegates in Glasgow for the COP26 talks, we all have a responsibility for our environment and the future.
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