A “long-held dream” to extend a steam railway into the heart of a quaint market town in Wales is in the works - but £4.5million needs to be raised to ensure it is full steam ahead.

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It will be at least two years before the transformation of the network is complete.

The General Steam Navigation Locomotive 35011, a large 1944 engine, first arrived at Swindon and Cricklade Railway's Blunsdon site in 2019 amid plans for a multi-million-pound renovation of it.

The Steam Packet companies were an integral part of the system of distributing mail between Ireland and Britain. These factors made possible the early development of the modern postal service. Indeed, ...