A blaze on a railway embankment in Willaston which caused disruption to rail and road traffic was caused deliberately, say fire chiefs.
The blaze broke out on parkland next to the railway embankment near Wybunbury Road in Willaston at around 5pm last night.
A bid to reopen a Beeston and Tarporley railway station on the Crewe-Chester line has taken another step forward.
Members of the Beeston and Tarporley Station Reopening Group have delivered a Feasibility, and Preliminary Business Case submitted to the Dept for Transport
Dear Editor,
The competition to find a new home for the Great British Railways Headquarters is now live and towns and cities from across the United Kingdom are invited to apply.
Police chiefs defended their handling of the impact of the M6 crash this week which left thousands of drivers stranded for up to 12 hours on the motorway in soaring temperatures.
The incident, which resulted in the death of an HGV driver, happened northbound between junctions 17 and 18 when a lorry collided with a railway bridge.
Members of the South Cheshire Model Engineering Society are back on track after staging their first event since the outbreak of Covid pandemic.
They held a “Track Open Day” on Sunday (August 22) which allowed the first visitors to their site Willaston in 18 months.
Nantwich shop and business owners have been taking part in Nantwich Pride Festival 2021, writes Jonathan White.
Numerous outlets set up window displays in their premises in support of the festival.
Dear Editor,
There is a footpath between Shrewbridge Road and the railway station on Wellington Road.
It runs close to the railway, along Brookfield Park.
HS2 Ltd has today announced the formal start of construction on the project which will eventually connect South Cheshire to London in under an hour.
It follows the announcement in April when Department for Transport gave approval for HS2 Ltd to issue Notice to Proceed to the four Main Works Civils Contractors working on the project.
Beeston Castle and Tarporley railway station could be reopened as early as December 2022, it emerged today.
It is one of 50 proposals submitted from around the UK to the Government’s “Restoring Your Railway Fund”.
By Jonathan White
South Cheshire Model Engineering Society hosted a fundraising event for Macmillan Cancer Support on their premises at the rear of The Peacock Inn in Willaston.
A new book telling the stories of 22 British war heroes features a Victoria Cross winner who was badly injured in a horrific Nantwich railway accident.
George Eardley VC was driving with his wife when their car was crushed by an express train which had crashed through barriers.
Self-confessed Crewe train spotter and TV programme maker David Parker returns to the town this month to give an illustrated talk on his new programme, “Flying Scotsman and the Golden Age of Steam”.
And on stage at Crewe Lyceum with David will be special guest Bryan Skellon, a retired Crewe Works railway engineer whose book of memories Inside Crewe Works is published in September.
A rapidly spreading blaze on a railway embankment in Crewe has caused delays to local services.
Firefighters have been battling the blaze off Dunwoody Way in Crewe since it started at around 1.20pm today (June 29).
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