April 2010 news archive

BBC Countryfile visits the Honeybourne Line posted on 27/04/2010
A BBC film crew spend a day on the Honeybourne Line filming for the popular BBC1 programme Countryfile. Designed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Great Western Railway, the programme will be broadcast soon. But read on for more and a gallery of pictures taken during the day!
‘Truro’ gleams – but don’t touch the paint! posted on 27/04/2010
In its new guise as no. 3717, the National Railway Museum’s celebrated City class 4-4-0 City of Truro was steamed on Monday 26th April for the BBC to film a sequence in a forthcoming edition of their popular Sunday evening Countryfile programme. But the paint was still wet!
‘Truro’ steams over Stanway Viaduct posted on 27/04/2010
The first full-length passenger train crossed Stanway Viaduct on Monday 26th April. The impressive 15-arch, 50ft-high structure carried freshly-outshopped City class 4-4-0 no. 3717 City of Truro and a five-coach train for the BBC and underlining the progress that the railway is making in its expansion
New timetables in operation due to landslip posted on 25/04/2010
Honeybourne Line train services continue despite Gotherington landslip posted on 23/04/2010
LMS to the fore at Toddington posted on 20/04/2010
Toddington yard was briefly taken over by the LMS over the last weekend.
Locomotive diagrams for GWR175 posted on 20/04/2010
Thomas tickets posted on 15/04/2010
Five minutes with Steve Oddy posted on 07/04/2010
The next in our series ‘Five minutes with…’ is now on the site
Pint of steam, please… posted on 06/04/2010
The 2nd CAMRA / GWR Ale and Steam weekend will see many a pint downed at Winchcombe over the weekend of 22nd and 23rd May.
In the works posted on 06/04/2010
Visitors to Toddington station can hardly huge miss the cream-coloured building that overlooks the car park that now sports a fine sign proclaiming that it is the ‘David Page Shed’. But what goes on in there? At present it’s not possible to take visitors around the shed for health and safety reasons so here is a glimpse at what’s going on inside…
It’s not all locos in the GWR175 line-up posted on 06/04/2010
The Honeybourne Line will boast a spectacular cast of locomotives and rolling stock for GWR175 and the list of resident and expected guests is now on the GWR175 section of the website.
Salt 'n Vinegar with that? posted on 06/04/2010
Now here is a real treat: fish, chips and steam (salt ’n vinegar optional). There are some places left on the first ‘Cheltenham Fryer’ of the season…
New book on the Honeybourne Line posted on 02/04/2010
Swindon 8F mystery photograph posted on 01/04/2010
David Page Shed: a memorial to friendship on the Honeybourne Line posted on 01/04/2010
Regular visitors to the Honeybourne Line will notice a large sign resembling in shape, a Great Western locomotive name plate identifying the locomotive shed at Toddington as the ‘David Page Shed’.
Swindonised 8F posted on