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Issue 110
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36 NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: VALLEY VICTORIOUS!
The Severn Valley Railway is back – and with the addition of the
magnificent new £4.5-million Engine House museum and visitor centre at
Highley, it is better than ever before, as Robin Jones, who travelled on the
first passenger-carrying train over the line since it was decimated by last
summer’s double freak floods, discovered to his delight.
44 STREAKING AHEAD – AND THE REST!
Which stole the show – three A4 Pacfics in steam, or another Gresley
masterpiece, V2 Green Arrow, starting its final month before its
retirement? That was the big question being asked after the opening
weekend of the big LNER spring gala at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
58 WIN A TRIP ON STEAM DREAMS ‘CATHEDRAL EXPRESS’
Enter our star prize competition to win one of four pairs of tickets for the
Sunny South’s famous walk-on steam trip to a destination of your choice.
68 THE WORTH VALLEY 40 YEARS AGO
A few weeks before 11 August 1968, the north of England saw its first
heritage line, the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway launched. Gavin
Morrison presents a series of remarkable photographs of the line’s early
days 40 years ago.
76 PHILLIPINES STEAM SURVIVORS
Industrial steam in the Philippines’ sugar industry is like no other, but like
everywhere else, has been unable to resist the march of progress. Steam is
still alive though – just – as Lionel Price reports.
84 MAGNIFICENT MID-HANTS! A LESSON IN PRESENTATION
When editor Robin Jones visited the Mid-Hants Railway to find out about
how it won its latest visitor quality award, he saw at a glance why the line
comes out heads and shoulders above many competing attractions – the
high standard of its appearance.
88 STEAM’S FINAL SPRINGTIME
In the spring of 1968 everyone wanted to get out and see as much steam
as they could. Brian Sharpe’s countdown to August 1968 sees the stars of
the summer starting to emerge.
Regulars
5 OPINION
6 HEADLINE NEWS
Bluebell Railway gets £2.8-million Lottery grant for carriage shed and
museum; plans for first A4 run to Whitby; steam back in the Aberglaslyn
Pass, Royal Scot rewheeled, delayed Tornado still on track for main line and
homes threat to Leighton Buzzard Railway green acres.
10 NEWS: THE WIDEST COVERAGE OF UK PRESERVATION
Pete Best sells tank engine to Paignton; West Somerset buys Blaenavon
28XX; Ecclesbourne Valley opens to Idridgehay; Telford tank joins
Toddington for two years; white Easter picture special; Ffestiniog runs ‘real’
timber train; Bluebell president celebrates 100th birthday; London
docklands steam plans setback; Lottery £1.6-million for Bury Transport
Museum and £154,000 for LMS dynamometer car; new SOS for Scottish
railmotor survivor and Didcot unveils railmotor power bogie; Minehead
gala picture special; Bowes Railway to rebuild wagons after arson attack,
main line steam shuttles for Worth Valley 40th anniversary gala and Welsh
Highland makes progress through Porthmadog.
43 RAILWAYANA
Latest auction news and prices from Geoff Courtney.
52 THE THIN RED LINE by David Wilcock
Should the two exiled Gresley A4s come back from North America? How
the line-up of three A4s at Grosmont came about, plus peace breaks out
over summer ‘Scarborough Spa Express’ trips.
58 CENTREPIECE
V2 Green Arrow in Newtondale by Simon V Hopkins.
60 MAIN LINE NEWS compiled by Cedric Johns
Oliver Cromwell’s June trips to Norwich postponed; ‘extra’ Clan Line trip to
Minehead; ‘Big Four’ to visit Yeovil Junction and Lord Nelson in ‘slow’ race
for summer return.
66 MAIN LINE TOUR ITINERARY
Brian Sharpe’s guide to steam and heritage modern traction tours.
78 PLATFORM
Four pages where your views matter the most!
80 SCALE HERITAGE RAILWAY
Hornby’s new super-detailed Class 56 and a fleet of 60s road vehicles.
82 OFF THE SHELF
Latest book and DVD releases.
99 MORGAN
More outspoken views from the chairman of the Heritage Railway
Association.
101 SUBSCRIBE TO HERITAGE RAILWAY!
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102 UP AND RUNNING
Full listing of operational lines and museum venues.
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