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Weardale volunteers presented with a Chairman’s Medal

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May 20, 2025
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Weardale Railway Trust volunteers have been awarded Chairman’s Medals by the County Durham Council.

Thermal Drones to Be Used Again Over Summer in the North East

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May 18, 2025
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In order to keep people off the tracks along the Durham Coast Line and the Bishop Line, Northern, Network Rail, and the British Transport Police have been working together.

Newcastle to Brighton train service proposed

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April 26, 2025
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A new application has been submitted by Arriva Group that could see Grand Central run trains between Newcastle and Brighton via Gatwick Airport. Arriva says…

Book now to visit the Railway 200 Inspiration train

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April 24, 2025
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Tickets can now be booked for visits to the exhibition train named Inspiration that will tour the UK later this year as part of the Railway 200 celebrations.

Rail manufacturing championed in UK parliament

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April 24, 2025
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An elected member for the city of Derby has used her rare opportunity in the House of Commons to champion the rail industry in the…

Steam locomotive 45212 to visit Scotland this Saturday

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March 27, 2025
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45212 will be on the mainline this Saturday (29th March 2025) as it hauls The Edinburgh Flyer. Departing York at 07:29, the train will pass…

£250,000 grant for Railway 200 Exhibition train as full intinary announced – including The Greatest Gathering

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March 3, 2025
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Network Rail has confirmed that internary for the Railway 200 exhibition train, which will run around the UK.

National Railway Museum confirms £15m Government funding

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February 17, 2025
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The National Railway Museum has announced that the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has agreed to a £15 million investment to the museum’s transformative masterplan and Central Hall project.

Drone event to help celebrate Railway 200 in Durham

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February 11, 2025
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The S&DR200 festival – marking the two hundredth anniversary of the passenger railway journey between Stockton and Dalrington – is to launch with a spectacular open-air event in Bishop Auckland on Saturday 29 March 2025.

Drone event to help celebrate Railway 200 in Durham

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February 11, 2025
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