Sam Hewitt

MBE for Barrow Hill saviour & OBE for Director of London Transport Museum

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Sam Hewitt

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26th January 2019

New Year’s Honours List include Mervyn Allcock and Sam Mullins
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Dean Forest Railway buys WR pannier No. 9682 at Southall

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

THE Dean Forest Railway has bought WR pannier No. 9682 from the GWR Preservation Group at Southall. 1940-built GWR Toad brake No. 17488 is also included in the deal. A team of members has been busy getting No. 9682, which is currently dismantled, ready to move to Norchard, where it will join classmate No. 9681…
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All-new luxury carriage kicks off era for Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

A new, luxury observation carriage built by the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways for Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway has been delivered to Cumbria. The carriage, which offers panoramic views, was built at Boston Lodge Works to a similar design as the Ff&WHR’s Pullman observation cars, and is set to become a blueprint for a programme…
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‘Threatened’ Padstow station returns as museum

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

Six years after Padstow station – the westernmost point on the Southern Railway – was faced with the threat of demolition, it has been reborn as a showpiece museum for the town. Fears were sounded in 2012 when radon gas, four times higher than the recommended levels, was detected in the station house, along with…
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Catering and all access coaches progress at SVR

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

By Paul Appleton WORK is progressing well on the overhaul of GWR Kitchen Car No. 9615, according to Neil Taylor, head of locomotives and rolling stock engineering at the Severn Valley Railway. This long-term project has around a further two years to go before the vehicle can enter traffic, but as Neil said: “We have…
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WLLR’s diminutive Dougal wows crowds in Taiwan

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

A SMALL piece of mid-Wales made a big impression in the Far East on Saturday, December 8, when the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway signed a ‘sister railway’ co-operation agreement with the Taiwan Sugar Corporation (TSC). The signing ceremony was held in the city of Chiayi as part of the launch of TSC’s annual Sugar…
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J21 restoration project makes January start for 2022 target

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

NEARLY two years after announcing that it had secured Heritage Lottery Fund support to restore the now unique J21 0-6-0 No. 65033, its owners are finally beginning the work. Since receiving a £954,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant in March 2016, the Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust has been awaiting formal permission to start the restoration…
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Bahamas and B12 set to draw crowds at Keighley’s March gala

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

THE Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s March 8-10 spring steam gala looks set to be a ‘must-attend’ event, with recently-overhauled LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 No. 45596 Bahamas to be joined by LNER B12 4-6-0 No. 8572. Bahamas will be making its first gala appearance on a heritage line in more than 25 years, shortly after its…
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Catterick Camp Military line remembered in stone

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

Word and pictures by Maurice Burns ON December 11, a railway-themed memorial was unveiled at the Catterick Military Camp near Richmond in North Yorkshire marking a century since the end of hostilities in the First World War. The memorial is unusual in that it is a North Eastern Railway Class J72 0-6-0T identical to the…
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Your Gallery | Mayflower in Preston

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

BR built Thompson B1 no 61306 Mayflower seen here at Preston
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