Overhead line damage disrupts Great EasternPASSENGERS from stations in Norfolk and Suffolk are being asked not to travel via Colchester this morning, after overhead line damage was discovered between Colchester and Marks Tey. Network Rail workers reported shortly before 04.45 that overhead line equipment was tripping, and a train driver

STARK warnings to passengers about avoiding the East Coast Main Line (ECML) over the August Bank Holiday weekend appear to have done their job as Network Rail completed major work as planned at several locations.  On August 24 and 25, engineers worked around the clock to complete the renewal of

THE Tramway Museum Society (TMS) celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the museum in the old Cliff Quarry at Crich in 1959 with a special celebratory weekend on September 21-22. One of the star attractions was the return of 1914-built Blackpool & Fleetwood Electric Tramroad ‘Box’ car No. 40

First London tram fitted with automatic brakesTHE installation of an automatic braking system on London trams has begun, Transport for London has confirmed. The equipment was ordered in the wake of the fatal derailment at Sandilands in Croydon three years ago, when a tram overturned on a curve. Automatic braking

Former Thameslink trains set to carry London Gateway freightFORMER Thameslink trains are set to carry freight in May, when a new scheme to bring merchandise into central London is due to begin. The proposal is to use former Class 319s with their seats removed and diesel engines added, to provide

BAGNALL 0-4-0ST Kidbrooke (2043/1917) from the Yaxham Light Railway and Leighton Buzzard Railway’s Baguley 0-4-0T Rishra (working on the ‘Garden’ line) appeared at Statfold Barn Railway’s September 7 event, which featured 15 locomotives in steam plus ex-Burton & Ashby 3ft-gauge tram and ‘Goose’ railcar. Visiting Bagnall 0-4-0ST Kidbrooke is piloting

Our publisher, Mortons Media Group, is launching a range of non-fiction books to accompany the selection of Mortons bookazines already available from retailers all over the world. The 2019/2020 catalogue showcases a wide range of topics from railway, military and aviation history to consumer issues, hobbies, crime and

First Azumas run from LincolnMOST trains from Lincoln run by LNER will be worked by Hitachi-built Azumas from today, and the inaugural Azuma service leaves Lincoln at 11.18. Services between Lincoln and London also being boosted at the same time from one through train a day to five, with six

THE Richmond Light Railway’s (RLR) Charity Summer Steam Fair on August 17 featured two visiting locomotives: Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway’s O&K 0-4-0WT Eigiau and new-build replica Lewin 0-4-0T Samson, from Beamish. Accompanying Samson were two coaches newly completed at Beamish. Rebuilt 0-4-0VBT Leary working top-and-tail

‘U’ CLASS 0-6-2T No. 2 Zillertal, from Austria’s Zillertalbahn line, made its debut in Mid-Wales as the star of the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway’s (WLLR) August 30-September 1 steam gala. With Austrian flags fluttering and steam to spare Zillertal pulls away from Welshpool Raven Square in front of an admiring