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  • NRM prepares to close The Works as part of museum revamp

    NRM prepares to close The Works as part of museum revamp

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE National Railway Museum has confirmed that the workshop at York is to close in order to create both more gallery space and more space for displaying rolling stock. Titled The Works, the Heritage Lottery Fund grant-aided facility opened in 1999, and it enables visitors to look down from a balcony on locomotives being overhauled,…

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  • Massive Cornish welcome for Flying Scotsman ‘first’ visit

    Massive Cornish welcome for Flying Scotsman ‘first’ visit

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Cedric Johns DESPITE indifferent morning weather when Flying Scotsman departed Plymouth North Road to begin the A3’s first-ever visit into Cornwall, thousands lined the 78 miles of the testing route across the Duchy to Penzance on Saturday, October 6. The extended week of action began on Thursday, October 4, when Flying Scotsman supported by…

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  • LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: 19TH CENTURY – How the steam age began

    LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS: 19TH CENTURY – How the steam age began

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Following a summer in which we have commemorated 50 years since the end of British Railways main line steam, Brian Sharpe looks back to the beginnings of steam traction.

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  • The decline and fall of the Westerham Railway: A Prelude to Beeching

    The decline and fall of the Westerham Railway: A Prelude to Beeching

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Ron Strutt (hardback, Crecy, 208pp, £24.95, ISBN 978 1 90932 847 1). Here is a railway book that in so many ways is unlike anything that has gone before. It is now nearly 70 years since the Westerham branch in West Kent closed, and enthusiasts banded together to try to save it, firstly as…

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  • Be grateful for what we have already achieved

    Be grateful for what we have already achieved

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    Sam Hewitt

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    As a brief follow-up to Derrick Martin’s letter concerning his desire to see more vintage trains recreated, can I say how very fortunate I feel in the fact that I’ve just ridden on an excellently restored Midland Railway train at Butterley (albeit pulled by a J94) and also in the Ashover Light Railway coach on…

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  • Reader Offer: Simply the best!

    Reader Offer: Simply the best!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Heritage Railway readers are being invited to own a stunning new book showcasing some of the finest lineside photography of the past four decades – while helping an international charity which cares for homeless children found living on and around stations and their platforms. Rarely have two seemingly disparate hobbies – railway enthusiasm and photography…

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  • HELP MISSION TO STEAM Singapore

    HELP MISSION TO STEAM Singapore

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Gareth Evans learns about Rocks by Rail-based Hawthorn Leslie 0-4-0ST Singapore – a registered war memorial that saw active duty in the Far East in the Second World War – which the Rutland museum is hoping to return to steam if an appeal for £35,000 is successful. SEVENTY-five years ago – October 17, 1943 –…

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  • North Bay’s Edgar

    North Bay’s Edgar

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Mark Smithers welcomes a distinctive addition to the ranks of Britain’s narrow gauge new-build steam locomotives – and also learns about the latest developments at North Bay Engineering Services. In issue 230 of Heritage Railway in 2017, I referred to work then in progress at the workshops of North Bay Railway Engineering Services Ltd (NBES)…

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  • East Somerset’s friendly line

    East Somerset’s friendly line

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Steve Roberts enjoys a warm welcome at the East Somerset Railway and finds a line which is going from strength to strength, with rising passenger numbers and an excellent reputation for steam locomotive and rolling stock restoration. THE East Somerset Railway came through some difficult times a few years ago, but it is now buoyant.…

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  • WITH FULL REGULATOR: LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE THEN AND NOW

    WITH FULL REGULATOR: LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE THEN AND NOW

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Don Benn This time I am covering the recent performances of A4 Pacific No. 60009 Union of South Africa, plus some from the twilight years of Scottish steam in 1964/65. I have had precious few runs behind this engine in preservation, though I reported on the running of the ‘Jubilee Requiem’ in issue 196.…

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