Sam Hewitt

Five things you didn’t know about Apollo 11’s return

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Sam Hewitt

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24th July 2019

Rail enthusiast or not, it would take a lot to miss all of the coverage in recent news about the celebratory anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.
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Isle of Man Railways: Manx on the Up!

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd July 2019

The Isle of Man is a piece of forgotten Britain. Those were the words of an elderly female coach tour passenger I talked to while travelling on the Manx Electric Railway in early April. She’s not wrong either.
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UK railway news round-up

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Sam Hewitt

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19th July 2019

Welcome to The Railway Hub’s weekly round-up of the latest news in the rail industry.
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From the archive: New Yankee jewel in the Exmoor crown!

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Sam Hewitt

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10th July 2019

It is 82 years since the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway closed, and 38 years since a revivalist association was formed. One of its core mission statements was to restore the legendary line exactly as it was – and thanks to the culmination of a £650,000 new build locomotive project, now has a complete ‘original’ train.…
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Ever wondered how the Harry Potter rail scenes were made?

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Sam Hewitt

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8th July 2019

The exclusive behind-the-scenes report by James Shuttleworth.
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Issue 256 OUT NOW!

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Sam Hewitt

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5th July 2019

Last steam beneath Central London! Invicta flies over the rooftops! A1 Trust orders boilers for P2 and Tornado! Issue 256 of Heritage Railway magazine has got the lot!
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From the archive: Colossus of conservation

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd July 2019

The world has been in mourning for East Somerset Railway founder David Shepherd, who died aged 86 on September 19 2018, after losing a 10-week fight in hospital with Parkinson’s Disease.
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From the archive: The Cold North Wind

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Sam Hewitt

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26th June 2019

The autumn of 1967 saw the end of steam on the Eastern Region and at the great railway centre of Crewe.
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From the archive: Golden Jubilee

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Sam Hewitt

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20th June 2019

50 years ago, the last regular expresses hauled by pre-Nationalisation express steam engines ended; the LMS Jubilee’s last regular turns being on the Settle & Carlisle line.
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With full regulator: LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE THEN AND NOW

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Sam Hewitt

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12th June 2019

In his latest column, Don Benn describes the performance of Clan Line on December 20’s ‘Carols in Sherborne Abbey’ trip – and also February 2’s ‘Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express’ double-header of Mayflower and British India Line, which hauled the train between Carnforth and Carlisle and return to Preston via the Settle and Carlisle route. THIS…
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