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  • Dawlish camping coach site sold for £261K

    Dawlish camping coach site sold for £261K

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A BIDDING war broke out when Dawlish Warren’s camping coach holiday park was sold by auction on November 3. The landmark site in Beach Road, which was set up by the GWR in 1935, and now known as the Brunel Camping Coach Park, was closed at this end of this year’s summer season. The 0.83-acre…

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  • Campaign launched to save world’s oldest pier railway

    Campaign launched to save world’s oldest pier railway

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A CAMPAIGN has been launched to save Hampshire’s Hythe Pier railway and its connecting ferry. Fears have been sounded that the ferry is unlikely to continue operating because of falling passenger numbers and the cost of repairing and maintaining the historic pier. However, a petition launched by Hythe resident Maggie Blight in October gathered more…

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  • Back in green as East Lancashire trains sell out

    Back in green as East Lancashire trains sell out

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    Sam Hewitt

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    More than 8500 people rode behind A3 No. 60103 Flying Scotsman when it made its second 2016 visit to the East Lancashire Railway, nine months after it first ventured out of Ian Riley’s Baron Street workshops in Bury for its inaugural test run. Figures showed that another 3500 people viewed it from a station on…

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  • Night trains on Wareham extension

    Night trains on Wareham extension

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE prospect of regular Swanage Railway services to Wareham came ever nearer after the running of night-time trains over the line’s western extension during the October 14-16 autumn steam gala. Next June, the Purbeck line will join the elite group of former BR standard gauge lines, including the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, the Dartmouth…

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  • A tender for a tenner!: HELP GET NEW PATRIOT RUNNING WITHIN TWO YEARS

    A tender for a tenner!: HELP GET NEW PATRIOT RUNNING WITHIN TWO YEARS

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    Sam Hewitt

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    HERITAGE Railway readers are being invited to help get new-build LMS Patriot 4-6-0 No. 5551 The Unknown Warrior on course for completion in 2018 – by sponsoring the tender with regular donations. Supporters are being asked to contribute £10 a month by standing order. The appeal follows the blueprint of the phenomenally successful ‘An A1…

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  • Reviews: The Railway Children

    Reviews: The Railway Children

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    Sam Hewitt

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    York Theatre Royal/National Railway Museum (DVD, Genesius Pictures in association with Quidem Productions, 134 minutes including 25 minutes of special features, £12.99, available from Amazon, Salisbury, HMV and others, including the NRM). In 2015, York Theatre Royal’s version of the Edith Nesbit classic The Railway Children carried off the Heritage Railway-sponsored Heritage Railway Association’s annual…

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  • If the Kiwis can do it, why not Transport Heritage NSW?

    If the Kiwis can do it, why not Transport Heritage NSW?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The article by Geoff Courtney in last month’s issue of Heritage Railway on the continuing and controversial restoration of former NSW Government Railways C38 class No. 3801, provided a stark contrast to our recent experience at Glenbrook Vintage Railway near Auckland, New Zealand. We have recently taken delivery of not one, but two new boilers…

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  • The Great Survivor’s last indian Summer

    The Great Survivor’s last indian Summer

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    Sam Hewitt

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    With ‘Terrier’ No. 32670 being withdrawn from service at the end of the year, Geoff Silcock reminisces about the 12 consecutive days in August that saw two of the class rostered for more than 500 miles of timetabled running. No. 3 Bodiam has been on the Rother Valley/Kent & East Sussex Railway (KESR) since 1901,…

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  • Douro Valley Steam Revival

    Douro Valley Steam Revival

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Always popular with British enthusiasts, the Douro Valley in Portugal has been without any working steam for some years. Lionel Price reports on the return of steam to this scenic route. Working steam has returned to the CP (Comboios de Portugal) main line system this summer with the return to service of 1925-built Henschel 2-8-4T…

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  • Banbury ’box closed

    Banbury ’box closed

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Friday, July 29 saw the passing of another piece of history on Network Rail. Martin Creese reports on the closure of the two former Great Western Railway signalboxes at Banbury. The last mechanical signalling on the former GWR and now Chiltern Trains main line from Birmingham to Marylebone; the two Banbury ‘boxes had been as…

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