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Issue No 111 : 8 May edition

This month...

• STEAMING AGAIN: OLIVER CROMWELL
• TWO NEW‘SANDRINGHAMS’ BID LAUNCHED
• SHERINGHAM CROSSING TO BE REBUILT
• GREEN ARROW SURPRISE LAST TRIP

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• MARCHINGTON BREAKS SCOTSMAN SILENCE
• QUAD-ARTS BACK TOGETHER

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Latest News - 8 May

Wadebridge set for big Cotswold festival

VOliver Cromwell at Loughborough station. BRIAN SHARPE.

BULLEID West Country light Pacific No 34007 Wadebridge returned to service on the Mid-Hants Railway on 13 April for the first time since the fire that gutted its cab.

The locomotive performed well and ran all day, hauling a six-coach coach train with ease.
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Cromwell comeback starts end of steam anniversary

Staff and volunteers worked round the clock to get Oliver Cromwell ready for
the May Bank Holiday gala. ROBIN JONES

By Robin Jones

CELEBRATIONS to mark the end of BR main line steam haulage kicked off in superb style with the return to steam of preservation icon BR Britannia Pacific No 70013 Oliver Cromwell.

Following the lifting of the boiler back into the frames at the Great Central Railway on 10 April after its successful earlier steam and hydraulic tests, paid staff and volunteers have been working round the clock to reassemble the locomotive in Loughborough shed.
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FEATURE: Green Arrow surprise last run

Such is the overwhelming popularity of preservation icon LNER V2 2-6-2 No 4771 Green Arrow that after it was declared a total failure three weeks before, and would not steam again, North Yorkshire Moors Railway locomotive engineers carried out a temporary repair to enable its planned final farewell run on 26 April to go ahead after all. Robin Jones and Brian Sharpe pay tribute to one of Britain’s biggest steam stars.
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FEATURE: A well tank to Wittersham Road

At a time of larger lines making the heritage headlines, Geoff Silcock headed in the opposite direction in mid-March, to where the meeting of two classic Victorian London suburban locomotive designs took place at the Kent & East Sussex Railway...
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PLATFORM: Olympics are a worthy cause

Having read Opinion in issue 110, I would be the first to acknowledge the significant contributions made to local economies by the railway preservation societies. But it must be accepted with gratitude that significant awards have been received by many of those societies, over the years from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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