January 2011 news archive

See the CC Slip and make a donation! posted on 24/01/2011
In response to a number of requests we are going to organise site visits/tours of the Chicken Curve slip...for a donation
Chicken Curve then and now posted on 23/01/2011
Here is a variation on our occasional ‘then and now’ series, showing pictures by Paul Stratford of Chicken Curve - and the change in the embankment is startling.
Not all bad news! posted on 23/01/2011
With attention very much focused on the Chicken Curve disaster, it is easy to forget that good things are happening elsewhere!
Chicken Curve stuffed! posted on 21/01/2011
Not the melodramatic title of a bizarre hen-house murder mystery but the true story of how disaster struck the railway this January. This feature explains a little of the history of the so-called Chicken Curve and the dramatic events that have again severed the line.
Sunny Santa ends the 2010 season posted on 21/01/2011
The railway’s Santa Specials are the crowning glory of the GWR’s year – generating huge joy amongst the youngsters, their parents and, of course, the volunteer staff who run them. But this Christmas, things took a rather different course…
Railway’s bad luck takes a serious turn for the worse posted on 17/01/2011
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway (The Honeybourne Line) has suffered a further major embankment collapse and has issued the following Press Release.
P&O update posted on 14/01/2011

Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – ‘The Honeybourne Line’

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