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In 2025 Railway 200 celebrates the 200th anniversary of the modern railway. Nationwide celebrations are planned.

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Steam locomotive with bunting in foreground

All aboard! Help us celebrate the birth of the modern railway

4 September, 2024

UK museums are invited to mark the 200th anniversary of this historic milestone in 2025, says Alan Hyde.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund Grant Enables Bluebell Railway to Celebrate 200 Years of Rail Travel

19 August, 202421 August, 2024

The Bluebell Railway are planning to mark this significant anniversary with a major event – Railway 200 @Bluebell Railway – which will feature not only Rail Past, as befits a Heritage Railway, but also Rail Present and Rail Future.

Kirsty Gallagher smiling while sitting in a stadium

Nothing Beats Sporting Routes

31 July, 20242 August, 2024

Find out where you can watch, learn about and discover new sporting passions by train with the new audio series, Sporting Routes.

First ETCS Level 2 test train with GTR's Richard Redehan in the driver's seat

UK-first sees digitally signalled train driven on intercity mainline

3 June, 2024

In a UK-first, a rail industry partnership has successfully run a digitally signalled train on an intercity mainline route.

Judith McNicol, Director, National Railway Museum (left) and Sarah Price, Head of Locomotion, at the opening of New Hall at Locomotion in Shildon, County Durham

Locomotion’s new hall opens to the public

24 May, 20245 June, 2024

New hall tells the story of Shildon, the world’s first railway town.

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