This month...

• SUPER SUMMER VIEWING & READING PACKAGE
Whistle Stop 12 - DVD
Mainline Memories - DVD
Railway Collections Volume 2 - Book
Railway Collections Volume 3 - Book
The Central Wales Line - Book
See issue 126's cover flap for order form >

• 'Torbay Express' - Survives past-time collapse
• Royal Scot - Delayed until October
• Didcot Railway Centre welcomes Tornado in August
• Tyseley Pannier for sale

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The 'T' factor

New A1 Pacific No 60163 Tornado crossing Ker Moor soon after leaving Blue Anchor, West Somerset Railway, with a Minehead-bound train on 9 June. DON BISHOP

Steam, the BR apple green variety, is taking this summer by storm, as the public clamour to see new-build £3-million A1 Pacific No 60163 Tornado shows no signs of abating. Ever-bigger crowds follow the locomotive everywhere it goes, and visits to the Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway, Didcot Railway Centre, Barrow Hill roundhouse (again) and the Severn Valley Railway are now booked, not to mention those ‘Torbays’, writes Robin Jones.
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ON SALE NOW - Tornado book

Officially ednorsed by the A1 Steam locomotive trust, the Tornado bookazine is the official account of the building of Britain's first main line steam locomotive for 50 years, how it took a team of volunteers 18 years to raise more than £2-million to build it and its international headline-grabbing debut on the main line, with a royal visit thrown in for good measure.

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Photo Gallery Updated - 11 June 2009

The Heritage Railway Photo Gallery has been updated. Keep sending your images and we will do our best to get them included.
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Plus this month...

SUPER SUMMER VIEWING & READING PACKAGE - JUST £15 WORTH £54

Save 72% and get: Whistle Stop 12 on DVD, Mainline Memories on DVD, Railways & Collections Volume 2 Book, Railways & Collections Volume 3 Book and The Central Wales Line Book valued as a pack at £54.87.
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LATEST NEWS

3rd in the series:
British Steam Past & Present
132 pages, £7.99

This is the third in the popular British Steam series. The bookazine contains an evocative mix of specially commissioned modern steam images and steam era archive pictures, the majority of which have never been published before.

The recently completed rebuild of ex LMS N0. 6100 Royal Scot is heralded with an in depth study of that restoration and the history of that iconic ex LMS locomotive class, including the facts surrounding the long standing ‘which Scot went to the USA’ argument.

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04 fails in KWVR gala

The heritage line steam gala seasons are traditionally spring and autumn, with services operating to relatively intensive schedules anyway during the summer months. Always a leader in the field of steam galas, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway held an enthusiasts’ event in midsummer last year to commemorate the 40th anniversary of reopening, which had taken place on 30 June 1968.
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Heritage Railway Photo Gallery Updated

Many more photos sent in by our readers for you to peruse...
If you have photos you would like to share then send them to:

Email: yourpics@heritagerailway.co.uk
Heritage Railway
Platform - Readers Letters
Mortons Media Group Ltd.
PO Box 99
Horncastle
Lincs LN9 6JR

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Brixham doubts as new rail revival mooted

By Robin Jones
RADICAL plans to extend the national rail network to serve Brixham have been described as a ‘non-starter’ by the Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway.
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Did you work on the Orient-Express?

ITV are making a documentary about the world’s most famous and luxurious train – the Orient-Express. The documentary will immerse itself in the glamour, romance and nostalgia of the Orient-Express experience and also discover the history and traditions of this most indulgent, and spectacular, form of transport.

- Did you work on the Orient-Express?
- Did you ever travel on the Orient Express?

If so, we would love to hear from you! We are also on the hunt for any archive or artefacts from the heyday of the Orient-Express. So, if you have any;

- Film footage
- Photographs
- Artefacts - old tickets, menus, brochures etc

Please do get in touch if you think you can help with any of the above. You can contact Emma Wilkinson on 020 7157 4908 or emma.wilkinson@itv.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

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