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  • A third new narrow gauge line for the capital is also on the way

    A third new narrow gauge line for the capital is also on the way

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    Sam Hewitt

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    PLANS to create a heritage railway at London’s Crossness Pumping Station have been given the green light. The idea of a light railway being built near Abbey Wood has been lurking around since 2011, when the Royal Gunpowder Mills at Waltham Abbey loaned Avonside oil-fired 0-4-0T No. 1748 of 1916 Woolwich to the Crossness Engines…

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  • Boost for two major London heritage railway projects

    Boost for two major London heritage railway projects

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Geoff Courtney IN a boost for two major London heritage railway projects, the revival of a line in the west of the capital that closed more than 70 years ago has taken a significant step forward, while another a few miles away near King’s Cross station is set to reopen within months. At the…

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  • Mixed traffic engines on the Worth Valley

    Mixed traffic engines on the Worth Valley

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Brian Sharpe The annual spring gala on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway was a little later than usual this year but with the resident fleet bolstered by three popular mixed traffic visitors, the valley resounded to the usual procession of steam-hauled trains battling the 1-in-58 grades through Bronte country. The three-day event over…

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  • 90mph running for steam:the real challenges

    90mph running for steam:the real challenges

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The article by John Forman in issue 226 takes an unfortunate and dismissive tone, and contains a number of factual inaccuracies that could leave your readers with an incorrect impression of how main line steam operates. The following will, I hope, provide some clarification on some of those points. The first area where the author…

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  • RAILWAY HISTORY – and site of an LNER terminus and MPD

    RAILWAY HISTORY – and site of an LNER terminus and MPD

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Rosedale branch was very close to the North Yorkshire Moors line. Geoff Courtney delves into the history of a a remote railway outpost that closed down in the 1920s. It is only a small, seemingly unimportant, line on an original, mid-1920s’ railway map that hangs in my study. Although published by the GWR –…

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  • Issue 227

    Issue 227

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NEWS Headline News Flying Scotsman to appear in unique quadruple running event on East Coast Main Line; Kent & East Sussex and Rother Valley railways given green light to link up; building of Great Central’s new Loughborough bridge now under way and £30 million plans for new heritage railway over Manchester Ship Canal unveiled. News Royal…

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  • Fifty years since the first Severn Valley engine arrived at Bridgnorth

    Fifty years since the first Severn Valley engine arrived at Bridgnorth

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    Sam Hewitt

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    EARLY volunteers at the Severn Valley Railway have been remembering the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the first locomotive on the line. March 25 was exactly 50 years since GWR 0-6-0 No. 3205 steamed into Bridgnorth’s Platform 2, the first train at the station since the line was closed by Dr Richard Beeching four…

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  • Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway founder dies at 91

    Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway founder dies at 91

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway has been in mourning for its founder and preservation pioneer Bill Woolhouse, who died at the age of 91. Bill, the 2ft gauge line’s company secretary and director, passed away on March 16, in the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby. Nearly seven decades ago, he became member No.…

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  • Standard 4 the focus for SVR

    Standard 4 the focus for SVR

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Paul Appleton THE Severn Valley’s own 4MT 4-6-0 No. 75069 has now become the firm focus of attention at Bridgnorth… and is set to return to action towards the end of the present operating season. It will further strengthen the ranks of operational former BR Standard types on Britain’s heritage railways, following the debut of…

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  • Southern flavour boosts Severn Valley gala success

    Southern flavour boosts Severn Valley gala success

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Severn Valley Railway’s March 17-19 spring steam gala turned out to be a stunning success. A total of 4537 passengers travelled – exactly 1000 more than last year’s spring gala and ahead of estimates for 2017, so it got the new season off to a bumper start. The railway also enjoyed 100% availability of…

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