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  • Three Steam on the Barnstaple & Lynton line

    Three Steam on the Barnstaple & Lynton line

    Bagnall 0-4-2T Isaac storms the last few yards to Woody Bay with a mixed train from Killington Lane. The spring gala on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway over the weekend of May 14/15 saw the unprecedented sight of no less than three steam engines working on the one-time Southern Railway 2ft gauge line. Locomotives in…

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  • A camping coach holiday 1966

    A camping coach holiday 1966

    The first photograph of the holidays as LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 No. 45593 Kolhapur storms out of Carlisle with the 12.09am to Leeds on Saturday July 2 1966. Fifty years ago, a remarkable variety of steam power was still in control of passenger and freight workings in the North-West. Trevor Gregg looks back to a camping…

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