John Titlow visited this year’s International Sandstone Festival, which was set to be the biggest 2ft gauge event ever held in the southern hemisphere.

This week’s railway round-up is dominated with the story that the government is to launch a review into the costs and benefits of HS2, even after £7 billion has already been spent on the high speed rail project.

In miserable conditions, BR Standard Pacific No. 70000 Brittania is seen near Farington Curve Junction, south of Preston.

Early October saw half of the preserved production Deltic fleet drawing the crowds at the Bluebell Railway, which for so long was a no-go area for diesels.

As printed from the January 1972 edition of The Railway Magazine, take a look at this story by Peter A Hogarth about the Barrow Hill roundhouse.

Three teenagers have been sentenced after a model railway exhibition was destroyed at a school in Stamford, Lincolnshire.

Snowdon Mountain Railway has begun a programme of replacement for its existing diesel locomotives which began service in 1985.

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