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  • Reviews: The Railway Children

    Reviews: The Railway Children

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    Sam Hewitt

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    York Theatre Royal/National Railway Museum (DVD, Genesius Pictures in association with Quidem Productions, 134 minutes including 25 minutes of special features, £12.99, available from Amazon, Salisbury, HMV and others, including the NRM). In 2015, York Theatre Royal’s version of the Edith Nesbit classic The Railway Children carried off the Heritage Railway-sponsored Heritage Railway Association’s annual…

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  • If the Kiwis can do it, why not Transport Heritage NSW?

    If the Kiwis can do it, why not Transport Heritage NSW?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The article by Geoff Courtney in last month’s issue of Heritage Railway on the continuing and controversial restoration of former NSW Government Railways C38 class No. 3801, provided a stark contrast to our recent experience at Glenbrook Vintage Railway near Auckland, New Zealand. We have recently taken delivery of not one, but two new boilers…

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  • The Great Survivor’s last indian Summer

    The Great Survivor’s last indian Summer

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    Sam Hewitt

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    With ‘Terrier’ No. 32670 being withdrawn from service at the end of the year, Geoff Silcock reminisces about the 12 consecutive days in August that saw two of the class rostered for more than 500 miles of timetabled running. No. 3 Bodiam has been on the Rother Valley/Kent & East Sussex Railway (KESR) since 1901,…

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  • Douro Valley Steam Revival

    Douro Valley Steam Revival

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Always popular with British enthusiasts, the Douro Valley in Portugal has been without any working steam for some years. Lionel Price reports on the return of steam to this scenic route. Working steam has returned to the CP (Comboios de Portugal) main line system this summer with the return to service of 1925-built Henschel 2-8-4T…

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  • Banbury ’box closed

    Banbury ’box closed

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Friday, July 29 saw the passing of another piece of history on Network Rail. Martin Creese reports on the closure of the two former Great Western Railway signalboxes at Banbury. The last mechanical signalling on the former GWR and now Chiltern Trains main line from Birmingham to Marylebone; the two Banbury ‘boxes had been as…

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  • NER 9F finale

    NER 9F finale

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The 9F 2-10-0 was described as the best of BR’s Standard steam designs. Robert Anderson outlines the history of the class and relates the story of a ride on the last steam-hauled ore train to Consett. The 9F 2-10-0s have been hailed as the most successful of the 12 Standard classes of steam locomotive introduced…

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  • Llangollen Railway: Locomotive Building Centre of Excellence – four new builds on the stock

    Llangollen Railway: Locomotive Building Centre of Excellence – four new builds on the stock

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In recent years the Llangollen Railway has developed a reputation as a centre of excellence for building new steam engines. Allan George investigates how the worshops have become the centre of new locomotive construction to fill in gaps in classes which have not been preserved. Currently the Llangollen workshops have no less than four engines…

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  • Steam’s top ten

    Steam’s top ten

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Which are Britain’s top 10 steam engines? Brian Sharpe compares the history and performance of the 10 biggest currently working main line engines in roughly chronological order of the introduction of the class. Britain’s elite working steam locomotives are those registered to operate main line trains on the Network Rail system. In recent years, there…

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  • Markeaton line may yet be saved

    Markeaton line may yet be saved

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    Sam Hewitt

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    DERBY businessman Don Amott said he wants to save the city council’s closed Markeaton Park Light Railway. The 15in gauge line, which was first opened in 1989 and was extended to its present length of nearly a mile in 1996, is currently being dismantled after the previous tenant, John Bull, said the city council, which…

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  • Samson flexes its muscles at Beamish Museum launch

    Samson flexes its muscles at Beamish Museum launch

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A LONG-lost locomotive that was re-created from a single photograph has received its official launch at the Beamish Museum in County Durham. As previously reported, the new-build 0-4-0WTG Samson has been mainly built by 79-year-old Beamish volunteer David Young, who spent 5000 man hours on the project. The original Samson was built in 1874, the…

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