The Christmas editions of magazines Heritage Railway and Steam Railway (both available from the Toddington station shop) feature the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. Heritage Railway features the recent press launch of the Bachmann model of 'City of Truro' and a news item about the new bridge at Laverton. There's also a fine picture of 9F 2-10-0 near Winchcombe with a Christmas 'Elegant Excursions' dining train.

Steam Railway magazine covered progress of GWR 2-8-0 no. 2807 which should be running in time for the railway's GWR175 celebration in 2010, as well as a double-page feature on the railway's plans to extend north to Broadway - and, perhaps - Honeybourne.

The feature, written by Ian Crowder, was originally written as if on a journey on the footplate of Foremarke Hall to Honeybourne Junction, where the train connects with an FGW service to Paddington. But much of this was lost in the editing, so we have reproduced the full article here.

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