Sam Hewitt

Search for contractor delays J21 locomotive overhaul start

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Sam Hewitt

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5th April 2019

The Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust continues to search for a contractor to carry out the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed overhaul of NER J21 0-6-0 No. 65033. LCLT chairman Toby Watkins said: “We’ve received formal permission from the HLF to start and the money is there, but we’ve been unable to select a contractor to overhaul…
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Talyllyn Railway visitor numbers on the rise again

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Sam Hewitt

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4th April 2019

Passenger numbers on the Talyllyn Railway over the February half-term period were 50% up on the previous year.
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South Devon Railway to mark 50 years with milestone steam gala

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Sam Hewitt

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4th April 2019

UPDATE | South Devon Railway announce the Hawksworth No. 1501 will cover the planned diagrams, replacing visiting locomotive 1450.
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No. 34092 City of Wells set and ready for services

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd April 2019

North Yorkshire Moors Railway has announced No. 34092 City of Wells has arrived for its opening event.
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Mayflower takes first trip after three years

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Sam Hewitt

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1st April 2019

The steam locomotive Mayflower returned to the South with Rail Company Steam Dreams to make its first passenger-carrying trip, in three years.
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Your Gallery | T9 Greyhound & Caley Tank 419

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Sam Hewitt

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1st April 2019

James Carruthers sent in some great photographs. Keep sending!
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YOUR GALLERY | FLYING SCOTSMAN

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Sam Hewitt

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1st April 2019

Captured above is a Ex LNER Pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman passing Woodyhyde on the Swanage Railway
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Prince of Wales to sing the Blues

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Sam Hewitt

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1st April 2019

BRITAIN’S most powerful steam locomotive to be turned out in British Railways’ Express Passenger Blue livery.
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‘Wish-list’ acquisitions boost for Cumbrian railway museum

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

By Geoff Courtney THE owner of one of the country’s newest regional railway museums is celebrating the acquisition of two local railwayana items that have been on his wish-list for many years but had come onto the market only recently. They are a venerable Maryport & Carlisle signalbox nameboard and a totem sign from the…
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Princess Royal visits Queen Victoria’s coach in York

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

THE complete restoration of Queen Victoria’s famous royal saloon carriage 150 years after it was built has been given the royal seal of approval. The Princess Royal inspected the coach when she visited the National Railway Museum in York for the first time on Friday, February 15. Built by the LNWR in 1869 for the…
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