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By Jonathan Webb FOLLOWING the death last year of owner Esmond Lewis-Evans, the Bulleid 4DD Group has purchased Bulleid EMU driving motor car No. 13003 from the receivers appointed to manage his estate. The vehicle is stabled in a corner of the private locomotive restoration site at Sellindge in Kent and is balanced rather precariously…

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A major milestone was achieved by Vale of Berkeley Railway volunteers on November 9, when the first of four 880ft sidings was sufficiently cleared of undergrowth to run their first ‘train’ – in the form of a hand trolley. Volunteers have been working at Oldminster Sidings for many months, to clear undergrowth and trees from…

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THE project to create a new GWR County 4-4-0 – potentially to be based at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway – can now claim to have a ‘real’ locomotive. The Churchward County Trust’s No. 3840 County of Montgomery officially came into being on November 13 – after the main frame plates were cut by TATA Steel…

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Words and pictures by John Titlow No gala – no visiting star guests – it was just the home fleet in operation on the Severn Valley Railway, but amidst some of the most wonderful autumn colours we have seen for many years. After the long hot summer when steam was banned many times throughout the…

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CLASSIC narrow gauge locomotives took centre stage at the annual Warley National Model Railway Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre near Birmingham on November 24/25. Attendance increased by more than 10%, giving the highest visitor numbers at the show for five years, a Warley spokesman said, who added that the boost in numbers was encouraged…

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THE occupants of a car whose driver failed to heed the warning signs at a North Norfolk Railway level crossing escaped unhurt after it collided with a steam locomotive and was wrecked. At around 11.20am on Saturday, November 17, GER Y14 0-6-0 No. 564 collided with the Mercedes A-Class on Sweetbriar Lane AOCL (Automatic Open…

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The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust is offering members of the public the chance to jump on board throughout the 12 days of Christmas – and sponsor a component for Britain’s newest and most powerful express passenger steam locomotive in the £5 million Gresley P2 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales. For a limited time only,…

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By Geoff Courtney Meg Gooch is a dab hand in the kitchen, having cooked for royalty, but she has another skill that is serving up a treat for visitors to the Kent & East Sussex Railway – that of signwriting rolling stock, an art which requires a steady hand and a lot of patience. Tenterden-born…

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By Geoff Courtney AS HE bid farewell to No. 31430 Sister Dora in October, Mangapps Railway Museum boss John Jolly feared he would suffer from withdrawal symptoms, for the Class 31 was the sole remaining ‘big’ diesel on site. However, within days he was his usual ebullient self, for through the gates of his Essex…

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By Paul Appleton A STATION in the remote Highlands of Scotland which saw its last train in November 1968 has reopened as the Highland Heritage and Culture Centre following complete refurbishment of the original buildings and the laying of short sections of track. Grantown East was on the former Great North of Scotland line between…

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