Sam Hewitt

By Jonathan Webb FOLLOWING the death last year of owner Esmond Lewis-Evans, the Bulleid 4DD Group has purchased Bulleid EMU driving motor car No. 13003 from the receivers appointed to manage his estate. The vehicle is stabled in a corner of the private locomotive restoration site at Sellindge in Kent and is balanced rather precariously…

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A major milestone was achieved by Vale of Berkeley Railway volunteers on November 9, when the first of four 880ft sidings was sufficiently cleared of undergrowth to run their first ‘train’ – in the form of a hand trolley. Volunteers have been working at Oldminster Sidings for many months, to clear undergrowth and trees from…

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THE project to create a new GWR County 4-4-0 – potentially to be based at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – can now claim to have a ‘real’ locomotive. The Churchward County Trust’s No. 3840 County of Montgomery officially came into being on November 13 – after the main frame plates were cut by TATA Steel…

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Words and pictures by John Titlow No gala – no visiting star guests – it was just the home fleet in operation on the Severn Valley Railway, but amidst some of the most wonderful autumn colours we have seen for many years. After the long hot summer when steam was banned many times throughout the…

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