It’s not often that you see a three-seat sofa, coffee table, rug and curtains decorating a local train station, but from Monday to Wednesday last week three stations in Wiltshire will be given a little taste of ‘home’.
It’s not often that you see a three-seat sofa, coffee table, rug and curtains decorating a local train station, but from Monday to Wednesday last week three stations in Wiltshire will be given a little taste of ‘home’.
The campaign spearheaded by Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown to secure the redoubling of the Swindon to Kemble Railway line since the Office of the Rail Regulator chose not to include the scheme in their funding priorities for 2009-2014 appears to have been ended as a result of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
The 25th Steam & Vintage Festival will be held at adjacent to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s Toddington Station over the Weekend of 9th and 10th October 2010. Gates Open at 10.00 am and a wide range of activities will be taking place on both days.
Organised bench thieves have spirited away at least £3,800-worth of heavy cast-iron bench ends from the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s Cheltenham Racecourse station.
Pete Waterman, music industry statesman and railway enthusiast, launched the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway’s (GWSR) £1 million emergency appeal on Tuesday 7th September 2010.
The Railways Minister, Theresa Villiers MP, today became the fifth Government Minister to recognise the importance of the re-doubling of the Swindon-Kemble Line, but a decision has been put on hold until the Comprehensive Spending Review on the 20th October.
First time in preservation: Honeyboune Line’s trains run over the Stanway Viaduct during Great Western Railway 175th Anniversary celebration
GWR175: Saturday 29th May- Sunday 6th June 2010
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway – the ‘Honeybourne Line’ – has with immediate effect, altered its steam train services following a landslip on an embankment near Gotherington.
GWR steam: source GWRGloucestershire Warwickshire Railway teams up with The Railway Magazine to mark 175th anniversary of Great Western Railway
9-day event: Saturday 29th May to Sunday 6th June 2010
News that the estimated cost of the re-doubling of the Swindon-Kemble line has come in £7.4m over the available budget has prompted an immediate call to action from Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown.