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All change at the LTM

25th May 2022 Darren Hendley Features

Christopher Westcott talks to Wendy Neville, the former head of communications at the London Transport Museum, about how things changed during her 13 years there. Although unintended, Wendy Neville’s time as head of communications at

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Book of the Week: Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2022

16th May 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

In 2018 the Rail Camera Club organised the ‘Rail Cameraman’ exhibition at Locomotion, Shildon, showcasing the work of the club’s members.

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Book of the Week: The Rise and Fall of King Coal

11th May 2022 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Features, Steam

This week’s Book of the Week tells the fascinating story of the UK’s ‘black diamonds’ from their origins to their role as the fuel that fired the Industrial Revolution: The Rise and Fall of King Coal…

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Book of the Week: Railways & Recollections: The Midland Mainland in London 1974-80

25th April 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July).

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Book of the Week: The Midland Mainline in London 1974-80

28th March 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July). From then on, improvements and widenings were undertaken through to 1905.

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No. 3440 City of Truro – ‘Ton-up Truro’: a reluctant legend?

23rd March 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam
Celebrating the centenary of its legendary unofficial 102.3mph run, GWR 4-4-0 No. 3440 City of Truro accelerates away from a signal check at Horse Cove, between Teignmouth and Dawlish, on May 10, with the returning Pathfinder Tours’ ‘Ocean Mail 100’ tour from Kingswear to Bristol. BRIAN SHARPE

In 1904, Great Western Railway icon No. 3440 City of Truro could have been hailed as the fastest locomotive in the world after being clocked at 102.3mph…

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The World of Railwayana

21st March 2022 Darren Hendley Features

The term ‘railwayana’ can cover all manner of rail-related memorabilia, from Victorian carriage prints, right up to nameplates recently removed from recently withdrawn HST power cars. Collecting such material has become a way for many

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Looking both ways: When Robert Fairlie ‘Double Up’ Steam

17th March 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam
Double Fairlie Merddin Emrys at Harbour station, Porthmadog, where the Ffestiniog Railway joins the Welsh Highland Railway. The locomotive dates from 1879. JAMES WAITE/Ff&WHR

The Ffestiniog Railway is famous as the only place in the world where the legendary double Fairlie articulated ‘back-to-back’ steam locomotives can be seen in action…

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The Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside

2nd March 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam
Foster, Rastrick & Company’s Agenoria, sister to the Stourbridge Lion, was a ‘star’ early locomotives exhibit in the Great Hall of the National Railway at York. It is the oldest complete locomotive in the museum. ROBIN JONES

The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.

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Book of the Week: Diesel Dawn 5

21st February 2022 Shannon Butcher Diesel, Features

Increasing affluence and a second-hand car allowed the author a geographical range previously denied to him and with various pals he embarked in the 1970s and 1980s on a number of expeditions.

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Unfortunately, due to circumstances out of our control with the printing/finishing of Heritage Railway issue 284, the latest issue is running two days behind schedule. We promise it will be worth the wait!

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