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The North Bay Railway saw a new steam engine unveiled in 2016 and more are to follow. Mark Smithers reviews the progress on its latest new-build projects. New Bagnall-pattern Sipat class 0-4-0ST Georgina made its public debut on the 20in-gauge North Bay Railway on March 23, 2016. At the time, more locomotive projects were in…

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By Brian Sharpe LMS Jubilee No. 45690 Leander returned to main line service in June with a couple of trips over the Hope Valley route for the Railway Touring Company but things did not go according to plan. The engine had made a main line test run from Carnforth to Hellifield and back on May…

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Yorkshire Moors Railway oversee the training of North Norfolk Railway drivers to operate on the main line. The Office of Rail & Road has authorised an addendum to the NYMR’s Safety Case for operating on the Esk Valley Line, so it can run dining trains on the Poppy Line between Holt, Sheringham, and over the…

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WEST Coast Railways’ ‘Jacobite’ summer steam service is featured on the new Bank of Scotland £10 note. The new polymer note, designed by banknote manufacturer De La Rue, which will enter circulation in the autumn, will keep the portrait of Sir Walter Scott on the front alongside the image of The Mound, the bank’s historic…

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By Cedric Johns After an 18-month wait for A4 followers and owner John Cameron to see and hear 4-6-2 No. 60009 Union of South Africa back on the main line, further valve repairs were carried out and ‘number nine’ was given a test run from York to Scarborough on June 16. The next day, the…

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Fifty years after the end of Southern steam, passenger services are running again over the entire length of one of the fabled seaside branch lines that served the south coast. While the Swanage Railway has long been hailed as a perfect microcosm of the Southern Railway/Region as it was in the days of steam, it…

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BC’s Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury was scheduled to open the new Ravenglass Railway Museum on Saturday, June 24. The museum will open to the public from 3pm, after Paul, the author of numerous railway history books, has performed the official opening. A nine-month redevelopment of the project gained £488,700 of Heritage Lottery Funding in…

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