Heritage locomotives will sound their whistles at midday on New Year's Day as an old railway tradition is rekindled. The "whistle off", coordinated by the Heritage Railway Association, is taking place ...

Heritage railways have been badly impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Credit: Dan Shorthouse. When UK-based events company PNP Events decided to cancel its Polar Express trains running through the ...

Volunteers at a heritage railway have teamed up with Network Rail to expand their offering. More than 800 volunteers help to run the East Lancashire Railway (ELR), which was originally built in the ...

Redundant railway equipment and materials from a mainline network are to be donated to a heritage railway. The agreement between South Eastern Railway and volunteer-led East Kent Railway is aimed at ...