A VISIT by Narrow Gauge Railway Society members to the 10¼in-gauge Newby Hall Railway on May 12 found No. 4433 Ivatt Atlantic (David Curwen & Edgar Newbery 1965) recently arrived from the Audley End Miniature Railway, Essex, via a March 12 auction (RM May, p84). The 4-4-2 did not appear to

MARKING of the 125th anniversary of Manx Electric Railway (MER) services to Laxey during the July 24-28 Manx Heritage Transport Festival included trams running ‘as’ Nos. 3, 4, 8 and 24 – four original trams destroyed in the 1930 Laxey shed fire.  The event also featured the return to service of

THE Friends of Kirklees Light Railway’s Annual Steam & Diesel Gala Weekend on September 14-15 will feature two visiting locos and a resident – all named Katie. The event theme is Estate Railways, with visiting locos comprising resurrected 1896-built Heywood 0-4-0T Katie and 0-8-2 River Irt, from Ravenglass & Eskdale

THE Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway (LCLR) marked 10 years of operating at Skegness Water Leisure Park on July 13.  LCLR ran at Humberston, near Cleethorpes, between 1960-1985, with the equipment relocated to Skegness in 1992 following a period of storage. Volunteers and supporters who then rebuilt the

OPERATIONAL O&K 0-4-0WT – identified as 3136/1908 and named Susan –has left Jeremy Martin’s Richmond Light Railway.  It is now at Hollycombe Steam in the Country (formally Hollycombe Working Steam Museum), following its acquisition by a Hollycombe trustee.  O&K 0-4-0WT (identified as 3136/1908) pilots ex-Dinorwic Hunslet 0-4-0ST

THRELKELD Quarry and Mining Museum’s July 27-28 Annual Steam Gala featured four guest steam locomotives.  Bagnall 0-4-0ST Kidbrooke (2043/1917) from Yaxham Light Railway and Statfold Barn Railway trio Peckett 0-6-0ST Liassic (1632/1923), Kerr, Stuart ‘Wren’ 3128/1918 Roger and Hunslet 0-4-0ST Jack Lane (3904/2005) joined Threlkeld resident Bagnall 0-4-0ST Sir Tom

Strikes planned on Merseyrail in the long running dispute over guards on trains have been called off so talks can continue. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union were due to walk out on September 30 and October 2 and 4. A series of meetings and safety workshops

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A TRACK fastening system which is alleged to be the source of excessive noise on parts of London Underground has sparked industrial action by the RMT on four deep tube lines.Pandrol Vanguard is described by its manufacturer as ‘a unique rail fastening system with very low vertical dynamic stiffness that

Lead Conservator Wendy Somerville-Woodiwis unveils Stephenson’s Rocket at its new home, the National Railway Museum in York, where it will be on display until April next year. Credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire. The original 1829 steam locomotive Stephenson’s Rocket can be seen from today at the National Railway Museum’s new Brass,