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I recently purchased that new book Hatfield to Hertford branch line by Peter Paye in it he mentions that on the 7th January1951 the BBC film crew were at Cole Green station filming a TV series about the Railway children. I own a DVD made in black and white of the railway children story which is...

Is there out there a dating agency for railway enthusiast I know a lot of couples met whilst working on a preserved railway but if you do not work on one where would you look.? Perhaps somebody else has asked this question before way back .

I read in Rail magazine today the above three signal boxes are to be abolished next year. Of course Covid-19 could delay the start or completion of these schemes.

What is the situation regarding railway clubs and societies with their own premises. There was nothing last Saturday ( After a two week delay ) on the easing of lockdown to suggest they can reopen their doors to members or can they ? Otherwise this can not go on for much longer as they pay...

January 18 saw the closure of the existing Claydon LNE junction signal box on the Oxford= Bletchley line . This was as most of you know the last working signal box on this line and was used until recently to enable bin liner trains from the Oxford direction to run round and then proceed down the...

Moderator note: split from https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/windermere-line-electrification-progress.191705/#post-4192064 Will increasing line capacity mean putting in a passing loop somewhere along the line say Burnside ?

Over the years the number of working distant semaphore signals on our network has shrunk considerably . But how many are there out there ? . If you know where there are or is a working distant Semaphore signal ( Excluding Heritage / preserved lines ) get in touch. The task is not so hard when...

Just finished watching a DVD of the 1975 TV series of model world narrated by Bob Symes. I thought it had long been wiped or even lost but all ten parts have survived and apart from a few glitches such as loss of sound here and there and some white lines for a few seconds on the screen it is...

The proposed resignalling between Norwich, Lowerstoft & Great Yarmouth could be postponed for up to a year. Can anyone confirm this ? It seems they are having problems with a new type of interlocking system the same type which I believe is delaying the Feltham area resignalling ( Shepperton...

Did anyone watch that film the ghost train the other evening on Talking pictures . Just wondered where the live shots were filmed. Looked like the line was overgrown and disused. What did you make of the film generally ?