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No. 34092 City of Wells set and ready for services

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Sam Hewitt

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2nd April 2019

North Yorkshire Moors Railway has announced No. 34092 City of Wells has arrived for its opening event.
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Mayflower takes first trip after three years

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Sam Hewitt

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1st April 2019

The steam locomotive Mayflower returned to the South with Rail Company Steam Dreams to make its first passenger-carrying trip, in three years.
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Prince of Wales to sing the Blues

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Sam Hewitt

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1st April 2019

BRITAIN’S most powerful steam locomotive to be turned out in British Railways’ Express Passenger Blue livery.
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‘Wish-list’ acquisitions boost for Cumbrian railway museum

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

By Geoff Courtney THE owner of one of the country’s newest regional railway museums is celebrating the acquisition of two local railwayana items that have been on his wish-list for many years but had come onto the market only recently. They are a venerable Maryport & Carlisle signalbox nameboard and a totem sign from the…
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Princess Royal visits Queen Victoria’s coach in York

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

THE complete restoration of Queen Victoria’s famous royal saloon carriage 150 years after it was built has been given the royal seal of approval. The Princess Royal inspected the coach when she visited the National Railway Museum in York for the first time on Friday, February 15. Built by the LNWR in 1869 for the…
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Celebrity launch for Lady of Legend

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

TV presenter and former member of the British Railways Board Prue Leith is to launch the Great Western Society’s new Churchward Saint 4-6-0 No. 2999 Lady of Legend at Didcot Railway Centre at 11am on Friday, April 5. The event will mark the start of three steaming days at the centre. Prue was a judge…
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First World War Baldwin tank to debut at Welsh gala

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

A LOCOMOTIVE that is an example of a type which ran on the original Welsh Highland Railway is to be one of the stars of the revived line’s major June 21-23 heritage event. Repatriated Baldwin 10-12-D 4-6-0T No. 45190 (War Department Light Railways No. 1058 and 608) has been named as the third visitor for…
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Toplight next in line for WSR carriages project

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

THE West Somerset Steam Railway Trust has reaffirmed its decision to restore GWR toplight TK No. 3639 as the next phase of its heritage carriages project. No. 3639 has a rich history as a passenger carriage, an ambulance coach and a camping coach prior to its acquisition by the trust. The 2016 decision to proceed…
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Sixty years on, the world waits to see UP ‘Big Boy’ steam again

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

ONE of the legendary Union Pacific ‘Big Boy’ 4-8-8-4s is nearing the end of its landmark restoration to working order, in time for celebrations to mark the company’s 150th anniversary of the First Transcontinental Railroad’s Golden Spike on May 10. The golden spike was the final spike driven to join the rails connecting the Central…
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Pegler’s daughter to wave off Scotsman at Swanage

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Sam Hewitt

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29th March 2019

THE daughter of the late Alan Pegler, who in 1963 bought Flying Scotsman for £3000 from BR to save it from the scrapyard, is to wave it off when it hauls its first train at the start of its three-week visit. Penny Vaudoyer will be flying in from her home in Portugal to perform the…
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