Heritage Railway

BOOM TIMES AT BROADWAY!

The impact of a heritage railway going from ‘somewhere to somewhere’ has rarely been more forcefully underlined than at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in recent weeks.

The late May bank holiday Cotswold Festival of Steam, the line’s first gala since the opening of its extension to Broadway on Good Friday, March 30, and sponsored by Heritage Railway publisher Mortons Media Group Ltd, attracted 35 short of 6000 fare-paying passengers over the star-studded May 25-27 event. It featured Didcot’s ‘Blue King’, GWR 4-6-0 No. 6023 King Edward II fresh from its Severn Valley Railway adventures, Britannia Pacific No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell from the Great Central Railway, working out the last few months of

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