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With no apparent standout candidate in their category, the 11 main line nameplates have it all to play for at Great Central’s sale at Stoneleigh on September 2. Numerically, the selection is being led by the GWR with five, followed by the LNER with two, one apiece for the SR, LMS, and Standards, and a…

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Generally regarded as the flagship of West Coast’s Carnforth motive power fleet, 4-6-0 No. 46115 Scots Guardsman has been taken out of traffic after its ticket expired earlier this month. The 4-6-0 dropped its fire, for the last time in its current session, after working West Coast’s own ‘Dalesman’ excursion on Tuesday, August 15. The…

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By Cedric Johns BOSSES at Locomotive Services Limited are celebrating having been granted a train operating licence for the operation of excursion passenger trains on the network’s main line. This means that Locomotive Services Ltd has now secured the three main approvals needed to operate. These are the ORR safety certificate, Network Rail access agreement…

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SECTIONS of what may be the world’s oldest standard gauge railway to be discovered have gone on show. As reported in issue 180, an excavation in the summer of 2013 at the site of the former Neptune shipyard in Walker, Wallsend, near the Roman fort of Segedunum on the banks of the River Tyne, unearthed…

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THE Great Western Society is to send two locomotives and GWR steam railmotor No. 93 – to Old Oak Common for what will be the GWR ‘mega shed’s’ last-ever open day. As part of main line developments in west London involving Crossrail, the Great Western Main Line and, eventually, High Speed 2, the famous shed…

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By Paul Appleton THE layout of the Severn Valley Railway’s Bridgnorth station yard, familiar to visitors and relatively unchanged since public heritage era trains first started running in 1970, is set to change massively under Phase 2 of the Bridgnorth Development Plan. For the past 50 years, the exit route from the station’s overflow car…

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THE Vale of Rheidol Railway will be running a special event to celebrate 95 years of the GWR on September 16-17, on the theme of Roaring Twenties and Thirties. The line’s 2-6-2Ts Nos. 8 Llywelyn and 1213 Prince of Wales will be hauling traditional Great Western rolling stock on a four train service. Re-enactors will…

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SERVICES on the Snaefell Mountain Railway have been halted on health and safety grounds. The Health & Safety at Work Inspectorate suspended services on the Isle of Man 3ft 6in gauge line on August 10, in the wake of an incident in which brakes failed on a tram six days earlier. After a tram came…

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