A heritage railway charity is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Thomas with a 14-mile "big birthday adventure" train trip.

Inland, towns like Merthyr Tydfil (population 7,700 in 1801; 50,000 just six decades later), Ebbw Vale ... lives occurred in Cymner in the Rhondda Valley in 1856: 114 dead. Two disasters followed ...

The Severn Valley Railway has confirmed its intention to progress with ‘One Railway’, a radical organisational restructure that it announced in December 2024. It said the decision follows a ...

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A police appeal has been launched to find a wanted serial fraudster who is alleged to have conned £50,000 from Bristol’s main heritage railway. Volunteers at the Avon Valley Railway say they ...

Severn Valley Railway's (SVR) success comes after a serious landslip occurred on their heritage line on January 30, leaving the track impassable and a hefty repair bill. A team of Network Rail ...

Blaenau Gwent The authority is reviewing the following roads: A467 Aberbeeg Road, Abertillery A4047 Beaufort Road, Tredegar Alma Street, Brynmawr B4256 Park Hill, Tredegar Beaufort Road ...

For the latest of RAIL’s Mystery Shopper trips to see how the railway performs on a day-to-day basis ... of those retained freight lines now turned over to passenger use - at Ebbw Vale Town, where we ...

Chris Walton, the chair of Severn Valley Railway (Holdings) Plc said: "For the past two years, a working party of people who care deeply about the future of the SVR has been carrying out a strategic ...

Homes and cars were submerged in Wales as rising waters were reported in towns across the country, including Pontypridd, Ebbw Vale and ... Leisure Centre and Cynon Valley Indoor Bowls Centre.

“The upgrade to the railway has also protected the important rail freight ... In December, just 357 journeys were made between Newport and the Ebbw valley because the journey involved going into ...

The lack of investment in the Welsh rail network - where only the core Valley Lines is devolved - is highlighted ... A year later 1.5 miles of new track was laid to extend the railway from Ebbw Vale ...