Four days in severn

The Greatest Gathering at Derby on August 1-3 brings together a host of exhibits from the railway over the last 200 years, but there are more than 100 modern traction locos and multiple units alone, a

GARY ESSEX reports on how the Severn Valley Railway is developing ways to link with the heritage sector with today’s main line railway

Have you ever thought, ‘I dodged a bullet there’? Well, for anyone who chose not to travel on the Branch Line Society’s ‘Tytherington Quarrier’ charter of July 12, you most certainly did. This was one

It’s been billed as ‘The Glastonbury of Railways’ and the largest collection of historic and contemporary railway vehicles ever assembled. But how did it originate, and what was involved in putting it together? GARY ESSEX looks at the background and logistics of holding The Greatest Gathering.

Overhauls, restorations and running notes

12099 – Kidderminster: The Class 11 was taken out of service in 2019 for overhaul. Since then it has received a thorough internal and external makeover from bufferbeam to bufferbeam by the dedicated t