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The WLA's Board & Management Committee has just updated its Business Plan for 2025 to 2027. This comprehensive Plan, covering some 48 pages, explains the WLA's history and background together […]

On behalf of the SVR, everyone will be concerned to hear about a serious embankment failure which occurred between Hampton Loade and Bridgnorth, leaving the line impassable. The SVR reports: […]

For those WLA Members feeling lucky, our WESTERN LOTTERY scheme has just arrived! THE WLA has just launched its new W E S T E R N   L O T […]

Work Undertaken for D1013 "B" End Bogie - as at December 2024 On Friday, 20th September 2024, D1013's B end bogie was relocated from the TMD Pit Road to No.3 […]

With D1013 and D1062 receiving most of the attention and focus during the year, a small group of WLA volunteers have been carrying out some initial assessments on D1048. Whilst […]

The story of how a small group of enthusiasts came together to save a ‘Western’ locomotive for preservation in the 1970s.

To help celebrate the WLA's 50th Anniversary Year and it's current drive towards increasing Membership numbers, the WLA has decided to offer Junior Membership (anyone under the age of 18) […]

Saturday, 31st August 2024 was a big day for the Western Locomotive Association (WLA) and for its Class 52 diesel hydraulic locomotive, D1013 Western Ranger. For the first time in […]