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- Items of rolling stock for sale
posted on 30/01/2012
- Five minutes with…Tina Sutton
posted on 29/01/2012
Our latest Five Minutes With introduces Tina Sutton, who recently ‘passed out’ as the railway’s only lady fireman. - January 2012 P&O Update
posted on 28/01/2012
- Scrap metal laws to be tightened
posted on 26/01/2012
Cash payments for scrap metal are to be outlawed and fines "significantly increased" to tackle the growing problem of metal theft. Following the theft of £60,000 of locomotive and other non-ferrous components from Toddington last year, this is good news for the railway industry. - Contracts signed for embankment repair
posted on 21/01/2012
Work is about to start on repair of the collapsed railway embankment at the so-called ‘Chicken Curve’ just north of Winchcombe station, following signing of contracts at Winchcombe station on Thursday, 19 January. - GWR 2012 photographic competition in aid of the Emergency Appeal
posted on 11/01/2012
Get snapping for a chance to win one of the attractive prizes on offer and help the Emergency Appeal fund. - Opposition takes control on the GWR!
posted on 01/01/2012
The Rt Hon. Ed Miliband MP, Leader of the Opposition, paid a surprise visit with his family to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on New Year’s Day, as part of a day with friends who live nearby. During the visit, he took control of the locomotive while it was running round the train. - Car plunges onto track at Southam
posted on 31/12/2011
Three people had a lucky escape from their car when it plunged onto the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's track below the Southam Lane bridge, bringing train services for 2011 to an abrupt halt. - Those shoes are made for walking…so take them for a walk on 2nd January!
posted on 29/12/2011
Get your walking boots out for a blast of fresh Cotswold air with the GWR on 2nd January! - The perfect way to spend a day after Christmas
posted on 26/12/2011
Everyone on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway hopes you enjoyed a wonderful Christmas. So you have a few days left before life gets back to normal so spend a day on the railway - a full train service is running every day through to Monday 2nd January, rounding of a very eventful year. - Exclusive! Five Minutes with Santa Claus!
posted on 22/12/2011
- December 4F update
posted on 19/12/2011
- Santa twice as busy on the GWR!
posted on 18/12/2011
- Worcester students boost Broadway station
posted on 17/12/2011
The Broadway Area Group, which has set about the task of rebuilding Broadway station on the site of the original, has come to an imaginative arrangement with Worcester College to provide practical building experience for students. - Broadway painting brings in the cash
posted on 17/12/2011
A raffle of a watercolour by Badsey artist Ian Gibson, showing an auto-train at Broadway in the 1960s, raised a very worthwhile £650 towards the rebuilding of Broadway station. - Not so brief encounter from Indigo Kings on the GWR
posted on 17/12/2011
There are green ‘Kings’, even a blue King – but indigo Kings?? We’re not talking Great Western express locomotives here, but a local jazzy blues band - Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway wins Ian Allan award
posted on 09/12/2011
At an award ceremony at Merchant Taylor’s Hall in Threadneedle Street, London on 7th December, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway was presented with the Ian Allan Publishing Heritage Railway of the Year Award, 2011. - Autumnal views of a Cotswold railway
posted on 07/12/2011
We’re delighted to bring you images from one of Britain’s leading steam railway photographers, Malcolm Ranieri FRPS . The railway is fortunate to count him as a volunteer stationmaster, as well as someone who has recorded many stunning images of the Honeybourne Line. - Santa steams into town on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway!
posted on 07/12/2011
The Honeybourne Line’s 2011 Santa Specials steamed off to a great start over the weekend of 3rd and 4th December and places for trains through the rest of December are filling up fast. - Gotherington signalbox opens
posted on 04/12/2011
Gotherington Signal Box was opened to pass trains for the first time on Sunday 4th December. - Chicken Curve Update 25th November 2011
posted on 25/11/2011
Soil nail tests bring good news. - Gotherington Signalling
posted on 25/11/2011
Gotherington Loop and Signals are now ready for use. - Latest C&W update
posted on 24/11/2011
- Autumn WW2 Activities - Better than Ever
posted on 24/11/2011
- 4F overhaul update
posted on 09/11/2011
- Chicken Curve Update 7th November 2011
posted on 07/11/2011
Latest update from Chicken Curve - New book on The Cotswold Line – ’Past and Present’
posted on 04/11/2011
- Latest P&O progress report
posted on 02/11/2011
- Sunday 13th November - Cheltenham Race Day Trains
posted on 02/11/2011