Tag: Welshpool

Welshpool’s steam locomotive ‘Dougal’ is set to return to steam

WLLR has revealed that its smallest engine, 'Dougal', is to go to…

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Ex-Sierra Leone carriage returns to Welsh narrow gauge railway

Ex-Sierra Leone Government Railways carriage No.1066 has returned to The Welshpool &…

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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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Welsh Marches MPs and regional leaders call for transport improvements

Welsh Marches MPs and regional leaders are meeting in Westminster on 5…

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Vertical boiler locomotive arrives at new home in Wales

'Nutty' is to transfer from Stonehenge Works on the the Leighton Buzzard…

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Visit Wales in this month’s RailAdvent Plus streaming addition

This time we feature not one, not two but THREE Welsh steam…

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Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway to stage a Cambrian Weekend

Next month, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway will recreate summer days over…

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Taiwan locomotive arrives at Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway

After a 9,971km journey from Alishan in Taiwan, diesel locomotive DL-34 has…

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Arrival of Taiwan locomotive at Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway delayed

The arrival of a diesel locomotive that is being loaned to the…

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