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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Heritage Railway magazine, the trackside companion for preservationists and all-round rail enthusiasts has a new deputy editor.
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The National Railway Museum in York and Locomotion in Shildon have reopened for the first time this year.
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The humorous and often poignant experiences of a trainspotter-turned-booking clerk during steam’s twilight years are told in a new memoir by Barry Allen.
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The life and work of an ingenious engineer who inspired Britain’s preserved railway sector is celebrated in a new publication written by Heritage Railway magazine editor Robin Jones.
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This week’s roundup of news from the UK railway industry.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are setting off on a festive morale-boosting tour around the country on the Royal Train.
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