Sent to be privately educated at Whitley Hall, by his own admission he was an outstanding pupil: ‘I was fairly quick in elementary scholarship, and in mental arithmetic was decidedly beyond the ...

A "serious" landslip has occurred on the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), with railway bosses saying they are likely to face "a ...

The landslide on the Severn Valley Railway, near to the Astbury Gold Course and Bridgnorth. Half of the edging stones on a bridge have gone as well as the land. The landslip could take months to ...

Severn Valley Railway has thanked hundreds of people who have donated to repair part of its line in Shropshire following a landslip. Credit: Severn Valley Railway Severn Valley Railway has thanked ...

A "serious" landslip has occurred on the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), with railway bosses saying they are likely to face "a large repair bill". Approximately 30m of the track and track bed are ...

Although the Sterns area has suffered previous landslips with considerable remedial work already carried out, the location of this failure is not one the railway previously had concerns about.

The heritage line is also reassuring passengers that it will be open to the public on February 15 for half-term, on the 12-mile section of its line that is unaffected. Alex Stevens, who saw the ...

Around 30 metres of track and track bed was damaged on Wednesday (January 29) to an “embankment failure” along the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) route. A section of the 16-mile-long railway line ...

About 30m (32yds) of the Severn Valley Railway (SVR) track and track bed was damaged in the slip on 30 January. The heritage railway runs for 16 miles (28km) from Kidderminster, Worcestershire ...

A section of the 16-mile-long Severn Valley Railway (SVR) railway line – that runs through Worcestershire and Shropshire – has been closed pending repairs. The affected area - shown in the ...