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🚂 𝗔 𝗚𝗜𝗙𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗔 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡! Tata Chemicals Europe has donated railway track to the Llangollen and Corwen Railway. The first 60-foot rails have arrived – and the gift could transform future track renewals! 🔗 Read more on The Railway Hub. #HeritageRailway

🚂 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗪𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬 – 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟵! Sunlight dances on the water as an LNER K4 returns tender-first to Fort William on July 16. 📸 J. H. Cooper-Smith, The Railway Magazine, October 1989. 💬 Did you ever see a K4 in steam? #ThrowbackThursday #RailwayHub

🚂 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗟𝗪𝗔𝗬 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦: 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟵 All 30 new Class 90s temporarily withdrawn after a braking fault! Severe WCML disruption – and further rolling-stock safety concerns. From The Railway Magazine, October 1989. Read more therailwayhub.co.uk/74047/fr… #Class90 #BritishRail

🚂 𝗪𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗘, 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟯! No. 5397 departs Crianlarich with the 10.05 Glasgow–Mallaig service, crossing the former Callander & Oban route. A classic scene from The Railway Magazine archives. 💬 Remember this location? #RailwayHistory #ScottishRailways

🚂 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗖𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗟𝗘, 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟯! Class 47 No. 1973 departs Newcastle Central with the 11.19 to Edinburgh. From the October 1973 Railway Magazine archive. 📸 Theo Koerner Remember these East Coast workings? #Class47 #BritishRail #RailwayHistory

🎅🚂 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗘𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔 𝗖𝗛𝗥𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗠𝗔𝗦 𝗘𝗟𝗙? Llangollen Railway needs Santa Specials volunteers! 🎄 No experience needed 🥪 Free lunch 🗣️ Welsh speakers welcome Last year's volunteers even made national TV! Find out more at The Railway Hub website

From The Railway Magazine issue archives: Two thoroughbreds engage in a trial of strength and speed as LMS ‘Princess Royal’ Pacific No. 6204 Princess Louise passes Berkhamsted Riding School with a Carlisle-bound express on August 16, 1938. FOX PHOTOS/GETTY IMAGES

🚂📸 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗢 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟭! The 12.10 Swansea–Newcastle service leaves Gloucester Central behind 2,500 h.p. Class 45 diesel No. 16. Who remembers these mighty ‘Peaks’ in action? 👇 📸 H. W. Cater / The Railway Magazine, October 1971 #RailwayHistory #Class45

🚂❄️ 𝗟𝗜𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗗 𝗚𝗔𝗦 𝗕𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗜𝗟 – 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟭! British Oxygen's £12m Widnes plant used specialist cryogenic tankers to transport liquid oxygen and nitrogen at temperatures down to minus 196°C. 📖 Discover the original report from The Railway Magazine. 👉The Railway Hub.

🚂📸 𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗞 𝗧𝗢 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟭! Keighley & Worth Valley Railway 2-6-2 tank engine No. 41241 passes the site of the Damems loop as excavation continues. 📖 From The Railway Magazine, October 1971. Remember the KWVR in the 1970s? 👇 📸 Martin Welch #RailwayHistory #KWVR

🚦 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱'𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗯𝗼𝘅! In October 1971, Motherwell's new signalling centre was taking shape, with plans to replace over 90 manual boxes. 🚂 Discover the original report & photographs from The Railway Magazine. 👉 Read therailwayhub.co.uk/74019/ra…

First steaming under the care of Driver Peter Layton at Delson Museum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on August 7, 1971 of the ‘John Molson’, a Japanese-built replica of Champlain & St. Lawrence Rail Road 2-2-2 of 1848. Photo by Tom Montgomery, courtesy Canadian Railroad Museum

🚂🕰️ 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀: 𝟭𝟵𝟱𝟬 The devastating 1948 floods closed the East Coast main line between Berwick and Dunbar for nearly 11 weeks. How was the damage repaired? 📖 Revisit the story from The Railway Magazine, October 1950. 👉 therailwayhub.co.uk/74004/ra…

🚂🕰️ 𝗠𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗱-𝗴𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝘁𝗵! From the October 1950 issue of The Railway Magazine, this archive photo shows a standard-gauge train on mixed-gauge track, around 60 years before publication. A fascinating glimpse of GWR history! #RailwayHistory

🚂🌺 𝗔 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆 Free afternoon travel for veterans, serving personnel and cadets on 8 November. therailwayhub.co.uk/73998/ll…

Splendid day out yesterday, although a little on the windy side at Sheringham on the North Norfolk Railway PLC at Sheringham 🫶🚂 #TheRailwayHub #RailwayHeritage #SteamRailway #TrainEnthusiast #RailwayPhotography #TrainSpotting #BritishRailways #RailwayPreservation #Locomotive

🚂🕰️ 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟵𝟲𝟳! How did British Railways detect dangerously hot axleboxes? A fascinating report from the March 1967 Railway Magazine reveals a new system being tested on the East Coast main line 👉 Read more at therailwayhub.co.uk/73974/ra… #RailwayHistory #BritishRail

#ThrowbackThursday The original building of the Glasgow Museum of Transport, formerly the paint shop of the Corporation’s Coplawhill Tramcar Works, with (right) 1937 “Coronation” class tramcar No. 1173 and (left) a horse-tram 🫶 Photo: Glasgow Museums & Art Galleries

🚂❤️ 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝘀𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲! The East Lancashire Railway has secured a portable defibrillator for use onboard its heritage trains. How will it work, and what's planned next? 👉 therailwayhub.co.uk/73964/ea… #TheRailwayHub #HeritageRailway