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Good news for North East Wales:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56345975

Through trains to Liverpool on the Borderlands line at last! Standing on Bidston station waiting for a connection is not my idea of fun!

If you are interested there is a 'Watkin Society' which was formed in 2019. Details can be found on their website: https://www.friendsofrosehill.org/the-watkin-society-watsoc/ There is also a book about Sir Edward Watkin by Geoff Scargill published by Pen & Sword books due out at the end of March. T...

If you missed this talk, recordings of it and others can be viewed on the RCHS website:

https://rchs.org.uk/clinker-lecture/

The Llangollen Railway has gone into receivership:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56241552

Can anyone recommend a current atlas showing the railways of North America (USA and Canada) - if such a thing exists. Ideally it should show passenger, freight and 'heritage' lines.

The title, publisher and ISBN would be great information.

Thank you in anticipation.

This evening at 7.30pm the Railway & Canal Historical Society will be giving Zoom talk on Sir Edward Watkin who was known as the 'Second Railway King' and had railway interests throughout the UK such as the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway) as well as p...

Bow Street station on the Cambrian Railways route to Aberystwyth opened yesterday. Please see the following BBC report:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55937512

I have just come across this newspaper report:

https://www.countytimes.co.uk/news/1903 ... niversary/

This afternoon at 2.30pm there will be a Zoom meeting on 'How the Railways came to Yorkshire' hosted by the Railway & Canal Historical Society. https://rchs.org.uk/events/ne-group-talk-how-railways-came-to-yorkshire-robin-leleux/ This is a public lecture and all are welcome. (There might be a limit ...

The first printing of this book sold out quickly. It has been reprinted and is available again from the Railway and Canal Historical Society website:

https://rchs.org.uk/product/steam-on-th ... mber-2020/