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China has moved to the testing stage for its next-generation high-speed train, the CR450. Engineers launched a test model from Yichang North Station along the Shanghai-Chongqing-Chengdu high-speed ...
China is on a mission to recreate the ancient Silk Road to East Africa – through air, railroad and sea links under its Belt and Road Initiative. Beijing is also increasingly promoting the ...
With funds raised at last year's exhibition, the organisers were able to donate enough money to install a defibrillator at Dursley Community Centre and Rednock School sports hall. This year’s event ...
MTH Premier Norfolk & Western J-class 4-8-4 is returning for the first time since 2020 and just in time for No. 611’s 75th ...
Families and model railway enthusiasts from across the region headed to the annual Sleaford Model Railway Exhibition at the ...
Dates have been confirmed for an event in Taunton that is sure to attract scores of model railway enthusiasts. Rail-Ex Taunton is taking place at Taunton School on Saturday, October 25, from 10am to ...
Rail users in the South West say they will be watching "with interest" to see what changes could be delivered after South Western Railway was renationalised. SWR was brought into public ownership ...
Nothing, except that one train has been repainted with the putative Great British Railways logo and will therefore look a bit different. The nationalised rail operation will have the same ...
Train operator Great Western Railway has provided a grant of £2,500 to enhance Barnstaple railway station. Friends of Barnstaple Station applied through the Customer and Community Improvement Fund.
South Western Railway (SWR) has become the first railway company to return to public ownership in what is described as a “turning point” for Britain’s railways. Did you know with a Digital ...
Services previously run by South Western Railway (SWR) became the first to be brought under public control by the Labour Government on Sunday. They are now the responsibility of DfT (Department ...
“Through public ownership, we will fix our broken railways to get Britain moving ... I counted 10 passengers – and nine staff. But the model ministers have chosen will make reform harder.