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In an unusual move, Peppercorn A1 No. 60163 4-6-2 Tornado was set to work the York to King’s Cross leg of UK Railtours’ modern traction ‘The Diversionary Tactic’ on Saturday, June 11, which would have avoided a light engine move for the A1. Computer says ‘no’ to Tornado at York LNER A1 Pacific No. 60163…

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THE Great Central Railway’s ‘Bridging the Gap’ project has been given a £250,000 major vote of confidence by Leicestershire County Council. County council buys a million Great Central Railway shares! Visiting SDJR 2-8-0 No. 53808 passes Kinchley Lane on the Great Central Railway with a photo charter goods train on May 26. PHIL WATERFIELD At…

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The Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0WT No. 1643 of 1930 No. GP39 – in Surrey County Council Highways Department bright maroon livery, but representative of a type that worked the WW1 trench railways – passes a Simplex marooned in a bomb crater, which has been cordoned off by barbed wire . ROBIN JONES BRILLIANT…

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Avonside 0-4-0ST No. 1865 of 1922 Elizabeth alongside Rippingale station. HURFORDS A CLASSIC GNR country station is being offered for sale – complete with a steam locomotive alongside the platform. Rippingale station in Lincolnshire is on the market for £600,000 – and prospective buyers are being offered the chance to acquire Avonside 0-4-0ST No. 1865…

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Hudswell-Clarke 0-6-0ST Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons No. 81 heads a passenger train on Sir William McAlpine’s private standard gauge line at Fawley Hill near Henley-on-Thames, during the May 20-22 Fawley Hill vintage weekend. JOHN TITLOW THE Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway has reintroduced mixed passenger and freight trains, a traditional feature from the line’s…

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