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Archive for 2012

Things looking up at GWSR

Folk at the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway (GWSR) are starting to smile a bit when you talk about the future.  It’s been a bad couple of years and morale has dipped now and again but all the backs-to-the-wall efforts seem to be paying off. First, the mild Xmas period has meant a much better Santa […]

The Economics of HS? – Just get on with it!!!

All the media are going crazy today with the news that the government has approved HS2.  Pete Waterman seems to be having fun with it all, judging by Twitter. Follow him and Christian Wolmar for the sane comments by people who know about railways and have an understanding of history. Pete is right to say […]

Brunel Train Shed to be electrified?

I was amazed and delighted to read a short little item in The Railway Magazine that the original Brunel GWR station at Bristol Temple Meads might again see trains when the Great Western main line is electrified in 2016/17. I know time moves on and buildings inevitably change their use. In some cases the change […]





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