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The National Railway Museum (NRM) in York will exhibit examples of new technology looking to the future to how the railways could look for Britain.
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In this issue, we explore the remains of the once mighty Pacific Electric Railway, a company that more than five decades ago linked the Los Angeles basin together with electric interurbans and streetcars.
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Rolling stock leasing company, Porterbrook, has announced that it has renewed its partnership with the National Railway Museum for 2022.
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Discover the vital role public transport plays in keeping London a green city at the London Transport Museum’s Acton Town Depot event
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To mark the Platinum Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Transport for NSW is remembering royal journeys on the rail network throughout regional NSW.
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Let’s explore the Museum’s latest exhibit, “WHEELS OF MIS/FORTUNE: Pullman’s Legacy of Innovation, Idealism and Exploitation.”
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Painting the town purple, the London Transport Museum will hold the ‘street party’ event on Friday the 9th of September starting at 18:45
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London Transport Museum has got Father’s Day in the bag with 20% off of some of its most popular heritage products alongside 20% off of tickets for the well-loved Hidden London Tours which visits secret parts of the Underground network.
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Our long holiday in 2022 was spent in the far North of Scotland. We stopped off to break the return journey close to Carlisle at a B&B in a hamlet called Boustead Hill adjacent to the Solway Firth.
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Today, one can fly from one of the New York City-area airports to an airport in the San Francisco Bay area (a distance of nearly 2,600 miles) in less than seven hours.
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In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the second year of his first term. His New Deal was attacking the Great Depression on a number of fronts, but the economy was still in disarray.
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The Beatles travelled on a special train from Paddington to film scenes on the Taunton to Minehead branch line for their popular film ‘A Hard Day’s Night’ with filming taking place at Crowcombe Heathfield and Minehead.
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The Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society has restored an authentic railroad phone box and put it on display at the C&O Railway Heritage Center in Clifton Forge, Va.
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This summer, the National Railway Museum in York is celebrating Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a “Royals on Rails” exhibition and a season of royal-themed activities.
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A new interpretation of the Gauge Museum at Bishops Lydeard station on the West Somerset Railway was formally opened on Saturday, 21st May by Rebecca Pow, MP for Taunton Deane at a ceremony attended by selected guests.
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Whether it was salvage ships on the Mississippi River, ironclads that helped the Union win the Civil War, a key bridge across the Mississippi or jetties at the mouth of that great river that spurred commerce, James B. Eads solved some of the major engineering problems of his time.
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The trains aren’t quite ready to roll, but the new mayor of Eatonville, Wash., has opened the throttle on an effort to revive the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad.
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In 1811, the town of Astoria, Oregon Territory was founded at the mouth of the Columbia River. Because of its location, many of the town’s civic and business leaders thought Astoria would become a key port.
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When a potential merger gets announced, there is almost always a bit of panic among us railroad photographers as we reflect on what we’ve covered on a railroad and what we’ve missed.
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Tuesday morning the radio scanner crackles in downtown Los Angeles — “El Segundo Local calling San Gabriel Sub DS” — as the Union Pacific LOW20 job requests permission to enter Metrolink-controlled trackage.
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The founder of Virginia’s Buckingham Branch Railroad, Robert Earl Bryant, died at his home in New Canton, Va., on May 8. He was 87 years old.
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Baseball fans, especially Colorado Rockies fans, already know Coors Field is special.
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Welcome to another Big Train Tour at the Colorado Railroad Museum!
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The transcontinental railroad project was not without controversy or corruption.
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One of the key events in the history of the United States occurred 153 years ago today – the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad (which was also known as “The Pacific Railway” and the “Overland Route”).
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