Tag: Marches line

Book Review: Rails from Shrewsbury: A Pictorial Journey 1970s to 2012 by Peter J Green

4.3 out of 5This book continues Peter J Green’s series of books featuring railways at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. He has chosen an excellent selection of photographs that provide a good impression of services on the multiplicity of lines that radiate from Shrewsbury.

This book illustrates trains on lines around Shrewsbury from just after the…

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Services resume on Marches Line after track laying in tunnel completed

Train services have resumed between Newport and Shrewsbury after Network Rail completed…

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Network Rail to renew track in Dinmore Tunnel between Hereford and Shrewsbury

The Marches Line will close between Hereford and Shrewsbury for nine days…

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Vintage Trains announces two extra Castle-hauled special trains

Vintage Trains has announced two special trains to replace those affected by…

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Train shortages affect Transport for Wales services

Transport for Wales (TfW) has advised that some of its services this…

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Extra £2m announced to protect Cambrian Railway Line from flooding

A multi-million-pound investment by Network Rail will protect the Cambrian Line from…

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8,000 tonnes of rock installed on Marches Line to prevent future washouts

Network Rail has made a four-million-pound investment to protect the Marches Line…

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