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April 18, 2014
International & UK Railway News Friday 18th April 2014
If you are heading out and about this holiday weekend, be sure to check with Network Rail to see if engineering works affect your travel plans... or check with a heritage railway to see what's on offer this coming weekend and holiday Monday...
By all means, have a happy weekend...
And travel safely....
Headlines...
UK News
Channel Tunnel train services returning to normal.(BBC News)
Eurostar train mishap causes 'severe' delays (France 24)
Marlborough £30m railway line restoration plan.(BBC News)
The level crossing wars.(BBC News)
Blackminster, Worcestershire
Shildon Locomotion's disabled access rated top by charity. (BBC News)
Tube staff plan five days of strikes.(BBC News)
Tube strike: RMT union calls five days of action over London Underground ticket office closures.(The Independent)
Inside London Underground's lost property office: Umbrellas, dentures and... human ashes.(The Independent)
TfL spent close to £500,000 on counselling 'stressed' staff .(London Evening Standard)
House Of Commons To Debate Second Reading Of High Speed Rail Bill (4ni.co.uk)
Engineering works and service alterations on weekends, bank holidays, events and festivals - check before you travel - Network Rail
UK Heritage News
Join the Track Trek to raise cash for Bluebell's steam trains (East Grinstead Courier)
Star attraction at Lincolnshire Wolds Railway's Easter Gala steams into station (Grimsby Telegraph)
GWR - Gloucestershire's mainline heritage railway - A 75-year journey back in time on the GWR
Guide to Ffestiniog Railway | Holidays in Ffestiniog Railway
Visiting a heritage railway over the holiday period?
Check this listing of UK heritage railways for times and schedules, etc...HERE
Raildate
EVENTS
All details are correct to the best of my knowledge, but no responsibility is accepted for
inaccuracies or changes.
Until Mid-Hants Railway: Day Out with Thomas
21/04/14 http://www.watercressline.co.uk/
Until Priest's House Museum, Wimborne, Dorset, UK
30/04/14 Lost Tracks - Remembering East Dorset's Railways
Exhibition to mark 50 years since East Dorset's last scheduled passenger trains
http://www.priest-house.co.uk/exhibitions.html
18/04/14- Great Central Railway: Easter Vintage Special
21/04/14 http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/
18/04/14- Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: Easter Open Days
21/04/14 http://www.e-v-r.com
18/04/14- Isle of Man Railways: Rush Hour on the Railways
21/04/14 http://www.iombusandrail.info
19/04/14 Railway Past Times - a nostalgic reflection of steam travel through Fordingbridge
Avonway Community Centre, Fordingbridge
1030-1630
http://fmr.org.uk/
20/04/14- The Lavender Line: War at Isfield
21/04/14 http://www.lavender-line.co.uk
20/04/14- Rushton, Higham & Wellingborough Railway: Easter Celebration
21/04/14 http://www.rhts.co.uk
20/04/14- Churnet Valley Railway Book Launch
21/04/14 Both days: Basil Jeuda
‘The North Staffordshire Railway in LMS Days’ Volume 3
Sunday only: Allan C Baker
‘North Staffordshire Collieries on the Hill North of Chell’
http://www.churnet-valley-railway.co.uk/news/lms-book-launch-basil-jeuda
20/04/14- Friends of the Cromford Canal - Horseboat trips
21/04/14 http://www.cromfordcanal.info/
20/04/14- Leawood Pumping Engine Steaming Day, Cromford Canal
21/04/14 Engine in motion 1200-1700
http://www.middleton-leawood.org.uk/
22/04/14 Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: Easter Operating Day
http://www.e-v-r.com
22/04/14- Great Central Railway: Easter Bunny Express
25/04/14 http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/
24/04/14 Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: Easter Operating Day
http://www.e-v-r.com
25/04/14- North Yorkshire Moors Railway: Spring Steam Gala
27/04/14 http://www.nymr.co.uk/
26/04/14- Epping Ongar Railway: Spring Diesel Gala
27/04/14 http://www.eorailway.co.uk
26/04/14- Great Central Railway: Quorn Bus & Rail Event
27/04/14 Toy and Train Fayre (Sunday only)
http://www.gcrailway.co.uk/
30/04/14 Vulcan to the Sky: Talk
"The Operational History of the Vulcan" by Barry Masefield & Andy Marson
Royal British Legion, Haig House, Pelican Lane, Newbury, Berks, RG14 1NP
1800 for an 1830 start - talk lasts about 3 hours, refreshments available
Tickets £10 available online
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/543/82/Regional-presentations.html
01/05/14 Vulcan to the Sky: Talk
"The Operational History of the Vulcan" by Barry Masefield & Andy Marson
Wollstonecraft Lecture Theatre, Bournemouth House, 19 Christchurch Road,
Bournemouth, BH1 3LH
1800 for an 1830 start - talk lasts about 3 hours, refreshments available
Tickets £10 available online
http://www.vulcantothesky.org/news/543/82/Regional-presentations.html
02/05/14 RCTS Bristol
St Peters Church Hall, Church Road, Filton, BS34 7BX
30-minute AGM followed by members presentations.
Starts at 1930 (room open from 1900)
Non-members are very welcome
http://www.rcts.org.uk/branches/bristol/events.htm
(With thanks to Howard Springer)
Kestrel Railway Books has updated its selection of mystery pictures - there are still some old
favourites alongside the new ones!http://www.kestrelrailwaybooks.co.uk/
European News
Far East Land Bridge and Russian Railways Logistics Video
The Russian Railways on YouTube
Far East Land Bridge and Russian Railways Logistics Presents new solution for trade between Europe and China - transporting containers via the Trans-Siberian railway. Prior to that transportation was generally based on using the sea route. The aim of this project is to provide a faster and greener way of operating shipments between Central Europe and China.
Mainland China advisers furious over Hong Kong's high-speed rail link delay
The high-speed trains are coming (Hindu Business Line)
www.think-railways.com
Selected headlines
Thessaloniki-Belgrade-Sofia passenger trains back on route
DB International involved in Serbian railway upgrade
Container train “Viking” wins Best Practice in Green Logistics and Co-Modality award
Yakunin: Sanctions against Russia will damage Russian-French relations
Ukrainian Railways plan to order 50 passenger coaches and 15 diesel trains from Kryukovsky railway car building plant
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