Sam Hewitt

SteamWorks! now open at Bluebell’s Sheffield Park

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2018

THE Bluebell Railway’s new interactive locomotive exhibition, SteamWorks! is now open Andrew Blessley, a Heritage Lottery Fund South-East committee member, […]
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Home from the front

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2018

Words and pictures by Brian Sharpe THE Elsecar Heritage Railway leads a relatively low-key existence, rarely making the headlines, but […]
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Mid-Hants’ ‘Black Five’ moves to Margate

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2018

By Gareth Evans THE Mid-Hants Railway Preservation Society has moved its ‘Black Five’ No. 45379 to Locomotive Storage Ltd.’s undercover […]
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Double Caledonian blues

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2018

By Brian Sharpe Only a select few heritage railways are able to run a complete train of one of Britain’s […]
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Feature | The final days of the Waverley Route

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Sam Hewitt

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14th November 2018

Trevor Gregg shares his recollections of both the line and his journey on one of the farewell tours.
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On the Iron Road to the Isles: The story of the ‘Jacobite’ steam service on the West Highland Line

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Sam Hewitt

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12th November 2018

By John Hunt and James Shuttleworth (hardback, The Nostalgia Collection, The Trundle, Ringstead Road, Great Addington, Kettering, Northants NN14 4BW, […]
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HISTORY MADE AS DUO RUN TOGETHER AT LAST: and isn’t Lyn absolutely magnificent paired with Lyd?

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Sam Hewitt

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12th November 2018

The term ‘special relationship’ – often used to describe Britain’s historic friendship with the US – took on a new […]
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GWR memories in a garage in the 1950s

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Sam Hewitt

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12th November 2018

The article by Geoff Courtney in issue 244 of nameplate Knight of the Thistle from GWR Star class No. 4012 […]
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Volunteer’s blog: Getting my hands dirty

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Sam Hewitt

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12th November 2018

In the first of a new feature series focusing on volunteering, Gareth Evans shares his experience of his first day […]
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LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: 19TH CENTURY – How the steam age began

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Sam Hewitt

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12th November 2018

Following a summer in which we have commemorated 50 years since the end of British Railways main line steam, Brian […]
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