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THIEVES TARGET £4,000 GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY BENCH CASTINGS FROM CHELTENHAM RACECOURSE STATION
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April 2009 news archive
Small prairie no. 5526 visits for the Bank Holiday
posted on 29/04/2009
Small Great Western ‘4575’ class 2-6-2T no 5526 – better known as a ‘small Prairie’ – is visiting the GWR for a couple of weeks from this weekend.
Quarter-century and growing!
posted on 24/04/2009
S and T update
posted on 22/04/2009
POSTMAN PAT, POSTMAN PAT AND HIS BLACK-AND-WHITE CAT PAY A FIRST-CLASS VISIT TO THE GWR!
posted on 22/04/2009
Saturday and Sunday, 25th and 26th April, and not just ‘early in the morning’, Postman Pat® and Jess the Cat are on a special delivery service to the award-winning Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway.
One in a million! Glaser family get the VIP treatment at the GWR
posted on 22/04/2009
Saturday 18th April was a rather special day for one family who paid a visit to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway to travel on the 2.15 steam train departure from Toddington station to Cheltenham.
GWR TO WELCOME ONE-IN-A-MILLION TRAVELLER!
posted on 16/04/2009
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway to carry its one millionth passengers this weekend!
Number crunching – a very good March indeed
posted on 02/04/2009
The four weekends of 2009 have seen a very encouraging start to the GWR’s year.
Latest P&O update online
posted on 02/04/2009
Growl, whistle, roar: it must be the Spring Diesel Gala!
posted on 02/04/2009
The GWR’s first event of the year is this weekend: and as usual, the Spring Diesel Gala promises a feast of diesel-powered magic.
Broad gauge for Broadway?
posted on 01/04/2009
The GWR has fixed the date for a spectacular celebration of the 175th Anniversary of the Great Western Railway in 2010.
April Fool
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