The Complete Preservation News Magazine
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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 […]
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Charles Fairburn took over the reins as the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the LMS from Sir William Stanier in 1944 […]
The Elsecar Heritage Railway is one of Britain’s smaller standard gauge heritage lines, but as Mark Smithers reports, the only […]
Forty years ago the last surviving rural passenger branch line in Northumberland closed. This was the Haltwhistle to Alston Railway, […]
The history of the double Fairlies is complicated. Allan George unravels the story and explains why the Ffestiniog Railway is […]
September 5, 2016 celebrates half a century since the final workings of the streamlined A4 Pacifics in BR service. Fred Kerr […]
2-8-0s No. 53808 and 53809, now both liveried in BR black, was the highlight of the West Somerset Railway’s immensely-successful […]
The history of steam traction on New Zealand’s main line railways extends from the earliest days of railways in those […]
The death of Geoff Bird, York shedmaster between 1965 and 1980, was announced just before Christmas. Phil Marsh was fortunate […]
Few heritage lines have quite the history of this narrow gauge line in Poland. Andrew Rapacz reports on a successful […]
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