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Battery train begins trial in West London

Test trials have started on GWRs new fast-charging battery train, on the Greenford Branch line in West London.

23 March is Non-League Day when South Western Railway promotes travel to 26 of the non-league fixtures taking place across its network.

Network Rail and The Tree Council are boasting of the success of traditional “railway hedges” at Hadley Wood station in North London.

Developer Turn Point Games has released a railway-building simulator ‘Train World’ that allows budding game players to become a railroad tycoon.

On 8 March a landslip between Oakengates and Wellington closed the line but is expected to reopen by the Easter bank holiday weekend.

For the first time in 50 years Oxford and Bletchley are linked by rail as part of East West Rail which will eventually continue to Cambridge.

Aircraft are struck by lightning an average of one or two times annually.

Redditch Model Railway Club will hold its fifty-first exhibition event in March rather than its usual September this year.

Over the last few weeks, we have been covering our footage from the 2020 Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Spring Steam Gala.

The impressive programme of work has seen one of the canal walls strengthened as well as replacement of rail and trackside equipment