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  • LSL uses Severn Valley to train its drivers on steam

    LSL uses Severn Valley to train its drivers on steam

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Jonathan Webb LOCOMOTIVE Services Limited has commenced steam crew training on the Severn Valley Railway. The TOC currently makes great use of drivers from other operators, such as DB Cargo, which are hired in to drive their steam charters, as it has very few steam qualified drivers of its own. The training, which involves…

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  • Britain’s newest TOC runs its first trains

    Britain’s newest TOC runs its first trains

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Robin Jones and Cedric Johns BRITAIN’S newest Train Operating Company, Vintage Trains Limited, has run its first official train – and it wasn’t steam or heritage stock. Just nine days after the TOC’s public launch, on Thursday, September 27, VTL provided the crew and paths for mileage accumulation on the new Vivarail Class 230…

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  • Finest fruits of the season

    Finest fruits of the season

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VisitEngland – as the national tourist board is called – take note. This year we have witnessed the finest collection of autumn galas on our heritage lines that I can remember, in all shapes and sizes. Fifty years since the end of British Railways main line steam, the public appetite for railway heritage shows no…

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  • Issue 247

    Issue 247

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NEWS Headline News ■ Crowds welcome Flying Scotsman’s inaugural Cornish visit. ■ DB Meiningen to design boiler for P2 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales. ■ LMS Patriot to leave Llangollen Railway. ■ Flood defence works boost Bala town extension. ■ Vintage Trains runs its first official trains as a Train Operating Company. News ■…

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  • APPEAL LAUNCHED TO CELEBRATE TORNADO’S 10TH BIRTHDAY AND IMMINENT RETURN TO MAIN LINE

    APPEAL LAUNCHED TO CELEBRATE TORNADO’S 10TH BIRTHDAY AND IMMINENT RETURN TO MAIN LINE

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust, the registered charity that built, owns and operates world-famous 100mph new steam locomotive No. 60163 Tornado, has launched a new fundraising campaign to mark Tornado’s 10th birthday this year and imminent return to main line operations.

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  • Lostwithiel Signal Box Panel Handed to Bodmin & Wenford Railway

    Lostwithiel Signal Box Panel Handed to Bodmin & Wenford Railway

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A presentation was made on 12 October to the Bodmin & Wenford Railway of the former signalling Panel from Lostwithiel box, on behalf of Network Rail. It covers the section from Liskeard to Lostwithiel, including Bodmin Parkway station and the single line section across Largin viaduct.

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  • Open day anniversary: Tyseley – here’s to the next 50… and more!

    Open day anniversary: Tyseley – here’s to the next 50… and more!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The weekend of September 29-30 saw Tyseley Locomotive Works celebrate in style the 50th anniversary of its first open day back in 1968. Robin Jones encountered a fresh atmosphere of euphoria and positivIty around the GWR depot as Vintage Trains embarks on its next great adventure in its new role as a Train Operating Company.…

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  • Welsh Highland Railway at 21

    Welsh Highland Railway at 21

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Gareth Evans reports on the Super-Power 2018 gala, which celebrated the start of Welsh Highland trains between Dinas and Caernarfon in 1997 – and he also gains a look inside the line’s impressive new northern terminus It’s staggering to think 21 years have elapsed since the rebirth of the Welsh Highland Railway from the Caernarfon…

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  • West Coast Super Power takes over Severn Valley

    West Coast Super Power takes over Severn Valley

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    Sam Hewitt

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    This year’s Severn Valley Railway’s September 20-23 autumn steam gala has been described as the event of the year, featuring no less than three express passenger locomotives in Royal Scot, Duchess of Sutherland and Britannia. A fortnight later, the GWR cross-county route played host to a fourth generation of raw West Coast Main Line super…

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  • Dartmouth Railway transforms into giant linear Christmas tree

    Dartmouth Railway transforms into giant linear Christmas tree

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Dartmouth Steam Railway is to light up Christmas… and offer a festive steam special like no other. It will run a series of American-style Christmas trains, with locomotives and carriages lit up with in excess of 100,000 lights plus miles of cabling. The formula has for years proved immensely popular with the operations across…

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