December 2011 news archive

Car plunges onto track at Southam posted on 31/12/2011
Three people had a lucky escape from their car when it plunged onto the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway's track below the Southam Lane bridge, bringing train services for 2011 to an abrupt halt.
Those shoes are made for walking…so take them for a walk on 2nd January! posted on 29/12/2011
Get your walking boots out for a blast of fresh Cotswold air with the GWR on 2nd January!
The perfect way to spend a day after Christmas posted on 26/12/2011
Everyone on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway hopes you enjoyed a wonderful Christmas. So you have a few days left before life gets back to normal so spend a day on the railway - a full train service is running every day through to Monday 2nd January, rounding of a very eventful year.
Exclusive! Five Minutes with Santa Claus! posted on 22/12/2011
December 4F update posted on 19/12/2011
Santa twice as busy on the GWR! posted on 18/12/2011
Not so brief encounter from Indigo Kings on the GWR posted on 17/12/2011
There are green ‘Kings’, even a blue King – but indigo Kings?? We’re not talking Great Western express locomotives here, but a local jazzy blues band
Broadway painting brings in the cash posted on 17/12/2011
A raffle of a watercolour by Badsey artist Ian Gibson, showing an auto-train at Broadway in the 1960s, raised a very worthwhile £650 towards the rebuilding of Broadway station.
Worcester students boost Broadway station posted on 17/12/2011
The Broadway Area Group, which has set about the task of rebuilding Broadway station on the site of the original, has come to an imaginative arrangement with Worcester College to provide practical building experience for students.
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway wins Ian Allan award posted on 09/12/2011
At an award ceremony at Merchant Taylor’s Hall in Threadneedle Street, London on 7th December, the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway was presented with the Ian Allan Publishing Heritage Railway of the Year Award, 2011.
Santa steams into town on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway! posted on 07/12/2011
The Honeybourne Line’s 2011 Santa Specials steamed off to a great start over the weekend of 3rd and 4th December and places for trains through the rest of December are filling up fast.
Autumnal views of a Cotswold railway posted on 07/12/2011
We’re delighted to bring you images from one of Britain’s leading steam railway photographers, Malcolm Ranieri FRPS . The railway is fortunate to count him as a volunteer stationmaster, as well as someone who has recorded many stunning images of the Honeybourne Line.
Gotherington signalbox opens posted on 04/12/2011
Gotherington Signal Box was opened to pass trains for the first time on Sunday 4th December.

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