Sam Hewitt

AFTER a 17-year absence, BR Standard 2MT No. 78022 has returned to passenger traffic on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. The Standard 4 Locomotive Society’s 2-6-0 appeared back in service on November 24, on the last weekend of ‘normal’ timetabled running before Santa specials began, working alongside the resident DMU to fulfil the timetable.…

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LONDON Transport Museum has launched a nationwide appeal to raise £200,000 to restore the last three surviving 1930s Q stock cars so they can be run on heritage tube services.The money is needed to fund engineering and restoration work, with the aim of having the first Q stock train running since 1971. The Q stock…

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By Geoff Courtney NORMAN Preedy, one of the country’s leading railway photographers whose name was known to many thousands of steam and diesel trainspotters through his photographs in the Ian Allan ABCs, has died suddenly at the age of 75. Norman, who was unmarried, was found at his home in Barnwood near Gloucester on November…

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A HOUSE built for a manager at the world’s first steam-operated public railway is up for sale for £155,000. Layfield House in Urlay Nook Road, Eaglescliffe, was built in 1840 by the Stockton & Darlington Railway, for a manager at the Hole of Paradise coal depot at the end of the 1.2 mile long Yarm…

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By Geoff Courtney A HALL packed with railwayana collectors, enthusiasts and the media saw LNER Pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman add another world record to its CV on November 17 when one of its nameplates sold at auction to an overseas collector for £64,500. Much had been made of the impending sale in the weeks…

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This Christmas, Network Rail is sharing one of the railway’s most historically important artefacts with the world. The rediscovery this year of a notebook written by ‘father of the railways’ George Stephenson enabled the public to see remarkable plans of the birth of the passenger railway for the first time. John Page, a records assistant at Network Rail’s archive in York,…

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