Heritage Railway

We’ve played our part: now it’s over to you!

ACK in 1983, a time when many of our top-flight heritage lines had been established, I drove past Toddington station and glimpsed the first of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway revivalists at work. Would they, I wondered with hope, ever come near to equalling the magnificence of the SevernValley Railway, as they laboured against

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