Steam locomotive hauled Santa Trains underway at the Llangollen Railway
The Llangollen Railway have begun their 2018 Santa Train season today, 1st December 2018 as the build-up to Christmas begins. Special trains steamed through the…
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News from the Llangollen Railway
Class 37 locomotive up for sale
The Llangollen Diesel Group has announced that one of their locomotives is up for sale following a decision at their AGM. Class 37 6940 has…
Vegetation work at the Llangollen Railway
Now that the main running season has finished, the Llangollen Railway has been busy this past weekend completing vegetation work at Deeside. This work has…
Project update as steam trains in Corwen get nearer and nearer
The Llangollen Railway has released an update on their project to bring steam trains back to Corwen, something of which, is becoming more and more…
Steam locomotive 3802 hauls final train of 2018 to Corwen East
Steam locomotive 3802 has hauled the final train to Corwen East of the 2018 season on the Llangollen Railway. The 1510 from Llangollen on Sunday…
Latest update on steam locomotive 6880 Betton Grange
The 6880 Society has released a small update on the work to build steam locomotive 6880 Betton Grange. Work has progressed with the boiler. A…
Llangollen Railway to stop work on steam locomotive No.45551 The Unknown Warrior
The Llangollen Railway has announced that they have made a decision not to take any further work with the project to build the new National…
RailAdvent celebrates 1,000,000 page views with our biggest competition yet
2018 has been a fantastic year for us here at RailAdvent, we have seen our biggest growth in views and visitor numbers and had many…
Work continues on tender for steam locomotive 6880 Betton Grange
6880 Betton Grange Society Ltd has released an update on the progress on the work being taken on the new tender for steam locomotive 6880 Betton…
GWR 4900 ‘Hall’ and 6959 ‘Modified Hall’ Class steam locomotives – Class Information
The Great Western Railway’s 4900 ‘Hall’ Class were the GWR’s most numerous 4-6-0 type engines ever built. They will be the focus of this week’s…
