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  • Letters: Why a ‘Night Owl’ beats The Great Bear

    Letters: Why a ‘Night Owl’ beats The Great Bear

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    Sam Hewitt

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    You invited comment on a possible new-build of The Great Bear.  An intriguing proposition;  this was GJ Churchward’s experiment based on his view of probable future requirements for more powerful express locomotives. As a departure from traditional GWR motive power design it didn’t do too badly. The main drawback was a seeming lack of availability…

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  • REVIEWS: A4 Pacific Locomotives

    REVIEWS: A4 Pacific Locomotives

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Peter Tuffrey (hardback, Ian Allan, 144pp, £22.50, ISBN 0 7110m 3847 9). It seems that there can never be enough books on Sir Nigel Gresley’s A4 Pacifics, one of which placed Britain back at the top of steam locomotive development, if only for its style and speed record. While most of what can be…

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  • NARROW GAUGE HISTORY: Not to be – the end of the Corris Railway

    NARROW GAUGE HISTORY: Not to be – the end of the Corris Railway

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Corris Railway was one of the first lines to be closed by BR and it was a very long time before a part of it was reopened. Dan Quine presents a series of views of the railway in the period immediately following closure. The 2ft 3in gauge Corris Railway has long been a favourite…

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  • REAL STEAM DAYS: A visit to a dump

    REAL STEAM DAYS: A visit to a dump

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Many pre-Grouping steam engines soldiered on until the end of the 1950s but were then withdrawn faster than the locomotive works were able to scrap them. Robert Anderson recalls a trip to see some vintage steam power dumped in a remote corner of Lancashire in 1959. By the mid to late 1950s most of us…

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  • WORKSHOP REPORT: GER No. 229 – a born survivor

    WORKSHOP REPORT: GER No. 229 – a born survivor

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    Sam Hewitt

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    An eagerly awaited return to steam is the 0-4-0ST sold by the Great Eastern Railway in 1917. Mark Smithers reports on the overhaul being carried out at the Flour Mill. The world of railway preservation is full of stories of tragic near-misses in terms of locomotives and other items that should have survived, but for…

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  • The LMS after Stanier

    The LMS after Stanier

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Charles Fairburn took over the reins as the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LMS from Sir William Stanier in 1944 before being quickly succeeded by George Ivatt. Brian Sharpe examines the contributions made by these two engineers to British locomotive development. The Second World War led to British steam locomotive design taking a new direction.…

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  • We’re all turning 50!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Our cover picture depicts a BR Standard 4MT tank back at Midsomer Norton and is a classic and quite wonderful example of the heritage movement thumbing its nose at the inevitable march of time, for it is 50 years since the closure of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway system. This year we have also…

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  • BBC ANTIQUES SERIES COMES TO BARROW HILL

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    Sarah Wilkinson

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    Barrow Hill Roundhouse Railway Centre near Chesterfield will host Flog It, the popular BBC One antiques programme presented by Paul Martin, on Thursday, September 29. Members of the public are invited to visit the unique heritage attraction with up to three antiques or collectables they might be interested in selling. Once valued the owner and…

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  • Three decades of the Duke: an original groundbreaker

    Three decades of the Duke: an original groundbreaker

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Ian Murray THE Seventies was, in many ways, the worst possible decade in which to attempt the ground-breaking rebuild upon which unique BR Pacific No. 71000 Duke of Gloucester’s merry band had embarked. Apart from the splash of colour and sound when ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest with Waterloo in 1974, the decade…

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  • Royal Scot: third time unlucky

    Royal Scot: third time unlucky

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Apart from during the 1948 Locomotive Exchanges, very few if any Royal Scot 4-6-0s penetrated the West Country until July this year. Then, No. 46100 Royal Scot was booked to work three ‘Torbay Express’ trips. As it happened, the 4-6-0s’ appearance west of Exeter and Newton Abbot was limited to two. The first, on July…

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