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  • Pullman car moves to restaurant

    Pullman car moves to restaurant

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    Sam Hewitt

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    An interesting carriage has recently appeared in the car park of an Indian restaurant at Polhill near Sevenoaks in Kent. There is a plate on the underframe showing ‘LNWR Wolverton 1908.’ It carries BR-type electric charging points. On each bogie are chalked ‘PE/DO 01/11,’ which make it appear that it may have run within the…

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  • TV historian opens new Exbury extension

    TV historian opens new Exbury extension

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    Sam Hewitt

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    TREADING in the footsteps of royalty, TV historian Dan Snow opened the new quarter-mile extension to Hampshire’s Exbury Gardens Railway on April 11. The 12¼in gauge line, opened in 2001 as an added attraction alongside the award-winning gardens, has welcomed many famous guests including the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall…

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  • Lottery grant for Welshpool & Llanfair’s African heritage

    Lottery grant for Welshpool & Llanfair’s African heritage

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway has received a £22,800 grant towards a project to create an African train. During its heritage era, the railway has regularly looked beyond our shores for locomotives and rolling stock, because it is built to the comparatively rare gauge of 2ft 6in. One source of rolling stock was Sierra…

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  • Swanage bumper Bulleid bonanza draws record crowds

    Swanage bumper Bulleid bonanza draws record crowds

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    Sam Hewitt

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    STEAM returned with a vengeance to the sunny south to mark the 50th anniversary of its passing on the region’s main line – as the Swanage Railway held its most successful gala ever. The March 31-April 2 Strictly Bulleid event not only starred the largest number of working Bulleid Pacific locomotives since the summer of…

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  • Swanage Railway given National Collection T3 4-4-0

    Swanage Railway given National Collection T3 4-4-0

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A UNIQUE LSWR 4-4-0 has returned to its home territory – after the National Railway Museum gifted it to the Swanage Railway. The ownership of Adams T3 No. 563 has been transferred to the Purbeck Line, after it was decided that Victorian and Edwardian 4-4-0s are otherwise well represented in Britain’s National Collection. Never having…

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  • Suburban travel to the fore on Norfolk coast

    Suburban travel to the fore on Norfolk coast

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A SET of four restored suburban coaches is now running on the North Norfolk Railway following the completion of a joint £250,000 project between the Poppy Line and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The set was officially launched at Sheringham station at 11.30am on Saturday, April 15. followed by the coaches being hauled for the first…

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  • Standard tank moves under its own power after major overhaul

    Standard tank moves under its own power after major overhaul

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Geoff Courtney FORMER Swanage Railway-based Standard 4MT 2-6-4T No. 80078 moved under its own power on April 8 for the first time in seven years following its purchase from Southern Locomotives Ltd by former BR trainee civil engineer Stewart Robinson. The 2-6-4T was a stalwart of the London Tilbury & Southend Line in its…

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  • Memories of 1P58 come flooding back

    Memories of 1P58 come flooding back

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ben Collier’s photograph of ‘Black Five’ No. 45212 in issue 227, on its first main line run, brought back memories of its last BR main line run and of the 1P58. The 1P58 was the 20.50 Saturdays only Preston to Blackpool South and was the last officially booked steam passenger working on BR. On the…

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  • Ewbank’s Toys & Models Auction: Thursday 1 June

    Ewbank’s Toys & Models Auction: Thursday 1 June

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    Web Editor

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    Advertisement feature Ewbank’s are the Premier International Antiques and Fine Art Auctioneers and Valuers in Surrey and Hampshire, holding quarterly Fine Auctions; and regular specialist sales of Jewellery, Silver, Clocks, Watches and Instruments, Fine Art, Ceramics, Antique Furniture and Works of Art. We also hold specialist auctions throughout the year, including Entertainment and Memorabilia, 20th…

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  • The tale of two awkward tradesmen, a remote station, and a light railway king

    The tale of two awkward tradesmen, a remote station, and a light railway king

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Geoff Courtney A previously untold Welsh Highland Railway story of nearly 100 years ago involving two awkward tradesmen, unused land at a remote station, and an intervention by light railway king Colonel Holman F Stephens, has been unearthed by WHR Heritage Group archivist Dick Lystor. The 1ft 11½in gauge railway opened between Portmadoc and…

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