DESPITE repeated warnings about the dangers, a number of Flying Scotsman spectators have continued to ignored appeals by British Transport Police not to trespass trackside when the A3 is due to pass. Helicopter snaps Scotsman
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THE Lynton & Barnstaple Railway has been given the green light to rebuild more of the original railway. Rebuild green light for Lynton & Barnstaple Baldwin 2-4-2T Lyn taking water at Blackmoor station shortly before
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TWO heritage lines have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Queen’s Award for East Lancashire and Chasewater volunteers Barclay 0-4-0ST No. 1223 of 1911 Colin McAndrew shunts the Chasewater Railway’s latest acquisition,
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In an unusual move, Peppercorn A1 No. 60163 4-6-2 Tornado was set to work the York to King’s Cross leg of UK Railtours’ modern traction ‘The Diversionary Tactic’ on Saturday, June 11, which would have
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THE Great Central Railway’s ‘Bridging the Gap’ project has been given a £250,000 major vote of confidence by Leicestershire County Council. County council buys a million Great Central Railway shares! Visiting SDJR 2-8-0 No. 53808
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The Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0WT No. 1643 of 1930 No. GP39 – in Surrey County Council Highways Department bright maroon livery, but representative of a type that worked the WW1 trench railways –
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Avonside 0-4-0ST No. 1865 of 1922 Elizabeth alongside Rippingale station. HURFORDS A CLASSIC GNR country station is being offered for sale – complete with a steam locomotive alongside the platform. Rippingale station in Lincolnshire is
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Hudswell-Clarke 0-6-0ST Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons No. 81 heads a passenger train on Sir William McAlpine’s private standard gauge line at Fawley Hill near Henley-on-Thames, during the May 20-22 Fawley Hill vintage weekend. JOHN
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