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Category: Features
VIDEO: Unboxing the Union Pacific ‘Big Boy’
This year sees the 150th anniversary since the ‘Pacific Railroad’ was finished, which linked the existing eastern US network with the Pacific coast at Omaha, Nebraska.
Read moreFrom the Archive: Didcot’s LNER double act!
Flying Scotsman’s first appearance at Didcot Railway Centre since 2005 and a guest appearance by another Gresley masterpiece, A4 No. 60009 Union of South Africa, brought in 6000 visitors over the August bank holiday weekend,
Read moreSandstone: “Where mountains meet the stars”
John Titlow visited this year’s International Sandstone Festival, which was set to be the biggest 2ft gauge event ever held in the southern hemisphere.
Read moreFrom the archive: Forty years of Deltic delight
Early October saw half of the preserved production Deltic fleet drawing the crowds at the Bluebell Railway, which for so long was a no-go area for diesels.
Read moreArchive: Open day at Barrow Hill
As printed from the January 1972 edition of The Railway Magazine, take a look at this story by Peter A Hogarth about the Barrow Hill roundhouse.
Read moreFrom the archive: Midlands remembers Southern steam 50
Commemorations marking the 50th anniversary of the end of steam on the Southern Region continue to capture the public imagination.
Read moreVIDEO: Unboxing Hornby’s Harry Potter modelling collection
Harry Potter continues to captivate one generation after another and now Hornby has created its own little piece of magic for fans.
Read moreIn pictures: Railways during World War II
Here are a selection of World War II advertisements that appeared in The Railway Magazine in 1940.
Read moreFrom the archive: Still growling on – Modern traction preservation
There is no doubt that diesels are an integral part of railway preservation but this was not always the case. Brian Sharpe delves into the increasingly complex world of British main line diesel preservation. On
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