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Deep in Southern Railway territory, there seems to be nothing like an LNER Pacific for drawing the crowds. That fact was brought home big time to the Bluebell Railway when Flying Scotsman visited last year. The crowds for the line’s October 12-14 Giants of Steam event were equally as rapturous when Gresley A4 No. 60009…

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A UNIQUE visit from a Swiss engine, along with an appearance by Welsh singing superstar Dame Shirley Bassey DBE boosted visitor numbers to the Snowdon Mountain Railway this season, the Llanberis-based line has said. Brienz Rothorn Bahn No.2 travelled 900 miles to North Wales in September to meet up with its sister locomotives, leading to…

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By Geoff Courtney A PRESERVED LNER-designed EMU that gave more than three decades’ service with BR on busy trains between the commuter belt of Essex and London’s Liverpool Street station, faces a new lease of life after its transfer from the East Anglian Railway Museum to the Locomotion museum in Shildon, where it will be…

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THE railway sector has been in mourning for photographer, author and publisher Colin Garratt, who has died at the age of 78. Globetrotting Colin – who has been dubbed ‘the David Attenborough of the steam locomotive’ – has written and illustrated more than 50 books, mostly based on his expeditions to document the world’s last…

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By George Jones A heritage signalbox cabin was lifted into its new position at the Llangollen Railway’s Corwen Central station site on October 25, adding a new dimension to the operational facilities being brought to the extension project, in preparation for the town’s new station opening to trains in 2019. The wooden structure has long…

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Words and pictures By Phil Marsh OCTOBER 20 saw a WR Hawksworth pannier tank haul a very special main line memorial train from London to the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway. As reported in issue 246, the train, headed by No. 9466, was organised in memory of its owner, the late Dennis Howells MBE, who…

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By Paul Stratford TRIBUTES have been paid to Malcolm Ranieri, one of Britain’s top lineside photographers, who was found dead at his Stratford-upon-Avon home. The discovery was made by friend and fellow photographer Andrew Bell on October 12. Malcolm, 72, also a Heritage Railway contributor, had not been seen or heard from for several days,…

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Local businesses raise more than five thousand pounds to give hundreds of children a treat.

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