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28/09/2021 British steam train journeys and preserved lines: Full steam ahead for a vintage day on the tracks [Daily Mail] There are excursion trains and preserved lines you can ride today. Here are a few favourites, also including the 'Hogwarts Express' and the line made famous by The Railway Children. (Permalink) Dartmouth Steam Railway Glenfinnan Keighley and Worth Valley Railway Mallaig Extension Mid-Hants Railway Railway Touring Company Strathspey Railway Swanage Railway The Jacobite The Watercress Line West Coast Railways Boat of Garten: Caledonian Railway 812 Class 0-6-0 No.828 departs Boat of Garten for Aviemore on the Strathspey Railway on 14th July 2019. John Gray 14/07/2019 Keighley: RS&H 0-6-0T Nunlow in Platform 3 at Keighley station on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway on 3 May 2010 during their weekend celebrating 40 years since the film The Railway Children wa ... John McIntyre 03/05/2010 Arnabol Viaduct: 62005 crosses Arnabol Viaduct with The Jacobite on 1 October. This viaduct is not so well known as Loch nan Uamh about half a mile away. The picture would not have been possible a few years ago ... John Gray 01/10/2013 Daily Mail Book: Scotland From The Rails
11/06/2020 Coronavirus: Swanage Railway's future 'on a knife edge' [BBC News] The future of a heritage railway rebuilt by volunteers over the course of 30 years has been left 'on a knife edge' by the coronavirus crisis. Dorset's Swanage Railway, which has been run as a tourist attraction since the 1990s, closed when lockdown came into force. It said the pandemic had 'created the most urgent and potentially devastating challenge' in its history. (Permalink) Covid-19 Swanage Railway Corfe Castle: 33202, with a Norden to Swanage train, approaching Corfe Castle station on the Swanage Railway, with the castle ruins on the hill behind, on 3rd May 2014. The class 33s were built for BR Southern Regi ... David Bosher 03/06/2014 Swanage: An open day at the Swanage Railway sees N Class 2-6-0 31806 and King Arthur 4-6-0 777 Sir Lamiel departing from the branch terminus with the 15.15 service. Bruce McCartney 15/10/2015 Norden: Bulleid West Country Pacific 34072 257 Squadron at Norden on the Swanage Railway in July 1999. Peter Todd 18/07/1999 BBC News