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  • Winter activities

    Winter activities

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Expectations have always been high that major infrastructure work and other repairs and improvements will take place on heritage railways and centres during the winter months. But the popularity of such events as Santa specials has given less time for the work to take place as Peter Brown found when beginning this exclusive survey just…

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  • Steaming back to strength

    Steaming back to strength

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Threatened with closure nearly 10 years ago, Gareth Evans finds that the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway is bouncing back, enhancing its offering with additional attractions and locomotive projects, as well as planning its next 50 years. Nearly 10 years ago, the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway was threatened with closure by its then Finnish-owned…

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  • Help restore Balmoral, Bristol Channel steam’s missing link

    Help restore Balmoral, Bristol Channel steam’s missing link

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    Sam Hewitt

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    As A Bristolian brought up in the postwar era, I was bequeathed the dual delights of steam on the BR Western Region and the steamers of the White Funnel Fleet care of P&A Campbell. Even today I can enjoy the West Somerset, Lynton & Barnstaple and Brecon Mountain railways, while for the last three years…

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  • Barry scrapyard led the steam world – but what about coaches?

    Barry scrapyard led the steam world – but what about coaches?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I was glad to read the story of the preservation of No. 43924. I recall, as a young member of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, spending a day scraping grease and dirt from the underside of the tender as it stood behind the shed in Haworth yard… and I have since ridden behind it.…

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  • To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? That is the question in station poser

    To hyphenate or not to hyphenate? That is the question in station poser

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Kent coastal town of Greatstone-on-Sea, near New Romney, is spelt like that – with hyphens. Unless you are the Southern Railway, in which case there are no hyphens. Unless it’s on the tickets. Then there are. The recent sale of a SR target sign for the station, which went for £2400 at an auction…

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  • ‘Unknown’ Crouch Hill surfaces at Croydon

    ‘Unknown’ Crouch Hill surfaces at Croydon

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A STATION totem sign that was an unknown survivor will be going under the hammer at a Transport Auctions of London sale at Croydon on February 17. It is from Crouch Hill, a north London station that was opened in July 1868 by the Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway and is now on the capital’s…

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  • John ‘Foz’ Hendley– a railway enthusiast and dedicated Wolves fan who attended 1000 consecutive matches

    John ‘Foz’ Hendley– a railway enthusiast and dedicated Wolves fan who attended 1000 consecutive matches

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I never met him or even knew him, but I was saddened to learn of the death of John Hendley, for he was a man from a similar mould as myself – a dedicated Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter, keen on most sports, a railway enthusiast, and a railwayana collector. John, known as ‘Foz’, passed away on…

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  • Garden shed collection lights up Norfolk auction

    Garden shed collection lights up Norfolk auction

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A shedful of railway memories went under the hammer at the sale of a collection amassed by a career railwayman during his five decades of service on the Ipswich-Lowestoft line. Peter Punchard joined BR in 1954 as a porter at Brampton, became a signalman in 1961 based at nearby Halesworth, and carried out various other…

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  • West Coast to the rescue after landslip

    West Coast to the rescue after landslip

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    Sam Hewitt

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    WEST Coast Railways rescued a ScotRail DMU that was derailed by a landslip on the West Highland Line. More than 1000 tonnes of stone and mud slid onto the track after the mountainside above the railway gave way due to melting snow overnight on Sunday and Monday, January 21 and 22. Two-car Class 156 Unit…

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  • My personal bus route…

    My personal bus route…

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I was astonished to see the article by Geoff Courtney in issue 235 about the photograph of the RT reproduced from my book London’s Classic Buses in Black and White. I enjoyed compiling the book some 17 years ago, never dreaming I would see its prominence in a leading railway journal so many years on.…

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