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  • Tornado ongoing TPWS failure mystifies experts

    Tornado ongoing TPWS failure mystifies experts

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Cedric Johns Passengers travelling on The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust’s ‘North Briton’ railtour on Saturday, February 24, were surprised to discover that the train was fronted by a Class 66 diesel piloting Tornado when it departed on its steam-hauled leg from Doncaster. Those who had joined the train, diesel-hauled from Cambridge and stations beforehand,…

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  • Nipper of the Yard

    Nipper of the Yard

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    Sam Hewitt

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    An early use of narrow gauge steam locomotives was as works shunters. Mark Smithers reports on a new-build project for an LNWR locomotive design which will be the first 18 inch gauge non-miniature steam locomotive completed in the UK since 1927. ALTHOUGH many enthusiasts associate the early history of specialist narrow gauge locomotive design with…

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  • Winter activities

    Winter activities

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Expectations have always been high that major infrastructure work and other repairs and improvements will take place on heritage railways and centres during the winter months. But the popularity of such events as Santa specials has given less time for the work to take place as Peter Brown found when beginning this exclusive survey just…

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  • Steaming back to strength

    Steaming back to strength

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Threatened with closure nearly 10 years ago, Gareth Evans finds that the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway is bouncing back, enhancing its offering with additional attractions and locomotive projects, as well as planning its next 50 years. Nearly 10 years ago, the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway was threatened with closure by its then Finnish-owned…

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  • Help restore Balmoral, Bristol Channel steam’s missing link

    Help restore Balmoral, Bristol Channel steam’s missing link

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    Sam Hewitt

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    As A Bristolian brought up in the postwar era, I was bequeathed the dual delights of steam on the BR Western Region and the steamers of the White Funnel Fleet care of P&A Campbell. Even today I can enjoy the West Somerset, Lynton & Barnstaple and Brecon Mountain railways, while for the last three years…

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  • Barry scrapyard led the steam world – but what about coaches?

    Barry scrapyard led the steam world – but what about coaches?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I was glad to read the story of the preservation of No. 43924. I recall, as a young member of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, spending a day scraping grease and dirt from the underside of the tender as it stood behind the shed in Haworth yard… and I have since ridden behind it.…

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  • To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? That is the question in station poser

    To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? That is the question in station poser

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Kent coastal town of Greatstone-on-Sea, near New Romney, is spelt like that – with hyphens. Unless you are the Southern Railway, in which case there are no hyphens. Unless it’s on the tickets. Then there are. The recent sale of a SR target sign for the station, which went for £2400 at an auction…

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  • ‘Unknown’ Crouch Hill surfaces at Croydon

    ‘Unknown’ Crouch Hill surfaces at Croydon

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A STATION totem sign that was an unknown survivor will be going under the hammer at a Transport Auctions of London sale at Croydon on February 17. It is from Crouch Hill, a north London station that was opened in July 1868 by the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway and is now on the capital’s…

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  • John ‘Foz’ Hendley– a railway enthusiast and dedicated Wolves fan who attended 1000 consecutive matches

    John ‘Foz’ Hendley– a railway enthusiast and dedicated Wolves fan who attended 1000 consecutive matches

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I never met him or even knew him, but I was saddened to learn of the death of John Hendley, for he was a man from a similar mould as myself – a dedicated Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter, keen on most sports, a railway enthusiast, and a railwayana collector. John, known as ‘Foz’, passed away on…

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  • Garden shed collection lights up Norfolk auction

    Garden shed collection lights up Norfolk auction

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A shedful of railway memories went under the hammer at the sale of a collection amassed by a career railwayman during his five decades of service on the Ipswich-Lowestoft line. Peter Punchard joined BR in 1954 as a porter at Brampton, became a signalman in 1961 based at nearby Halesworth, and carried out various other…

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