UNRESTORED Hunslet 0-4-0ST Nesta (HE704/1899) has been acquired by Jeremy Martin’s Richmond Light Railway, and in late February was transferred from its recent display location at Bala Lake Railway to the Ffestiniog Railway. Nesta left Penrhyn slate

GCR Society. Farm Road Sports & Social Club, Sheffield S2 2TP. 19.30.‘The Railways of Colonel Stephens’: David Hanger. Lutterworth Railway Society. Lutterworth Bowls Club LE15 4RB. 19.30.‘Taking Trains abroad before the Tunnel’: Dave Coxon. Norfolk R

A £36,000 appeal has been launched by the Isle of Wight Steam Railway (IoWSR) to ensure a key member of its locomotive fleet is fit for the future. After more than 60 years of use, the tyres on‘O2’0-4-4T No. W24 Calbourne have worn to the extent that

The crossword winner and two runners-up can choose books worth £50 and £25 respectively from the extensive Nostalgia Collection. Visit us at www.mortonsbooks.co.uk 4 6 down and 18 down: Civil engineer after whom Class 37 No. 37425 was named (3,6,8)8

PUBLISHING Production editor: Sarah Wilkinson Designer: Tim Pipes Editorial assistant: Jane Skayman Publisher: Tim Hartley Sales and distribution manager: Carl Smith Marketing manager: Charlotte Park Commercial director: Nigel Hole Publishing directo

THE Heritage Railway Association held its Spring Conference over two days in Llandudno on March 5/6, including a plea by the organisers of next year’s Railway 200 celebrations to get involved with the yearlong programme. Railway 200 coincides with th

THIS collection of photographs covers two decades of the changing scene along the coastal route to Holyhead (including the breakwater Class 01s), documenting the locomotives and units that worked in the area during the second half of the BR period. T

AS this issue went to press, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) and West Coast Railway Company (WCR) were engaged in a stand-off over the matter of fitting central door locking to heritage carriages – most notably the Mk.1s used on the ‘Jacobite’ stea

ONE of the most amazing transformations of a run-down station building into an asset which can be shared by its local community was unveiled formally on February 22. It was back in 1994 that British Rail – having failed in attempts to close line betw

A NEW carriage shed at Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre, Ruddington, is set to be finished imminently. Contractors were on site in early March installing track to connect the shed to the rest of the railway on site. Work was then due to resume on

PRIVATE owner wagon fleets are now, somewhat ironically, mostly owned and operated by government agencies. They include the Ministry of Defence, Army (MODA), British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) and Network Rail (NLU/NR). Most major private firms tend to foc

REMOVAL of the controversial in-filling of a bridge on a disused line at Great Musgrave bridge near Kirkby Stephen has cost the taxpayer £352,000. Work to fill the cutting under the bridge with 1600 tonnes of aggregate and concrete occurred in June 2

I FOUND Chris Milner’s excellent rolling stock article very interesting (February issue). Prior to Covid-19, I enjoyed rail travel for leisure and pleasure. Age and potential risk put an end to that, and I am only now tentatively starting to travel a

THE site for a new EMU depot at Shipley in West Yorkshire – first reported in last month’s RM – has been revealed. The £100 million facility will be built just south of the town’s triangular station, on the west side of the line to Bradford Forster S

TINSLEY MPD (coded 41A to May 1973, then TI under TOPS) was a major purpose-built diesel depot in north-east Sheffield near the city’s border with Rotherham. It was part of a plan by British Railways to modernise and rationalise rail operations, bein