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Parts of Somerset will benefit from a £800 million boost to the region's transport network, the Government has announced. ...
Victoria was the railway queen: the first British monarch to board a train when she departed Slough for Paddington in 1842.
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Government nixes West Somerset Railway funding
Efforts to improve Somerset’s rail services have hit a snag after the government refused to fund better connections to the ...
West Virginia has picked up commitments from a pair of offensive line transfers in Donovan Haslam (Austin Peay) and Carson Lee (Mississippi State). Where do they fit into the mix? What about the ...
The West Somerset Railway is offering excursions behind the Flying Scotsman for one full length journey of the line and a return journey behind one of their home fleet locomotives. The static days ...
Restoring the full length of the mothballed Leamside railway line could provide new train links for 100,000 people and unlock the potential to build 10,000 homes. A map published in North East ...
It has also introduced a popular new line in wooden train garden planters. FoMS members also carry out maintenance work and gardening on site. The largest overall support group for the WSR is the West ...
A long-abandoned Somerset railway line has been recognised as one of the UK's most picturesque ... The Somerset & Dorset Central Railway once served as a vital link across the South West, connecting ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. TWO steam locomotives added to the line-up for the West Somerset Railway’s Spring Steam Spectacular have been purchased for use on the ...
“Fenchuch” will only work during the Gala, operating recreated branch line trains, but 2807 is due to arrive at the end of March and will share the working of regular West Somerset Railway ...
A man has been jailed for trespassing on a railway ... South West London. The line connects London Waterloo, one of Britain’s busiest stations, with destinations in Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset ...
Restoring the railway only requires just over three miles of new track. The line ... the West of England Combined Authority, the Department for Transport and Network Rail.” North Somerset ...