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Category: Editor’s Intro

Credit where credit is long overdue

18th January 2019 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

We join with everyone in the heritage railway sector in congratulating two truly outstanding recipients of New Year’s Honours for 2019. When local lad Mervyn Allcock set out to preserve the behemoth that is Barrow

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Just reward for a mission beyond impossible!

14th December 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

Christmas has deservedly come early for the 1903 NER Electric Autocar Trust, and not before time. Yet again, I cannot praise highly enough the efforts of those who rediscovered one of the world’s most historically

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On the cusp of magnificence

16th November 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

This year we have commemorated a low point in the annals of UK heritage traction, the eradication of steam from the main line and its scrapping en masse 50 years ago. There were many observers

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Finest fruits of the season

19th October 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

VisitEngland – as the national tourist board is called – take note. This year we have witnessed the finest collection of autumn galas on our heritage lines that I can remember, in all shapes and

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Safety and security must come first

21st September 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

During my two decades in railway journalism, conflicts between the requirements of rails and the ambitions of cyclepath promoters have often been vexed issues, the latest manifestation being the controversy over the use of the

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Time for a reality check over the Rother valley

24th August 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

Much interest has been renewed in railway history by the ground-breaking appearance of Rocket on home territory in the Great Festival of the North. However, there appear to be those in the south of England

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The long-forgotten ‘missing link’ runs again

27th July 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

The weeks ahead will see several special events and railtours to mark the 50th anniversary of the last steam train run over the main line by BR, the ‘Fifteen Guinea Special’ on August 11, 1968,

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Preservation: passing a core test at former model HQ

2nd July 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

Fifty years ago, steam trains disappeared from our national network, apparently never to return. At the time, several people who could were rushing around trying to buy locomotives out of service and save them not

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Dereham perseverance pays off

12th June 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

IT is truly heartening in a year when we are commemorating half a century since the end of BR main line steam haulage, to see that mode of traction inching forward to reclaim yet more

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Justice for heritage around the corner?

8th May 2018 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro

At last – a distinctive breath of fresh air! No, I’m not emerging from the depths of a 1950s steam shed, but talking about a legal system which, rightly or wrongly, has for so long

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