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By Cedric Johns WORKING the last of Railway Touring Company’s south coast summer trains, ‘The Swanage Belle’, A4 4-6-2 No. 60009 Union of South Africa’s path was hit by operational problems that at one stage threatened the train’s arrival at its destination on Thursday, September 13. The day began with South Western Railway cancelling its…

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By Jonathan Webb NINE months since it ran its last train, GWR Castle 4-6-0 No. 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe on the ‘Christmas White Rose’ from Tyseley to York on December 16, Tyseley-based Vintage Trains has been granted an operating licence by the Office of Rail and Road, as reported in Headline News last issue.…

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A 105-year-old gauge one model of former South Eastern & Chatham Railway royal train engine No. 516 sold for £1600 at a Hansons’ railwayana and model trains auction at Etwall, near Derby, on September 3. The model, which was sold with five carriages, was made by Bing of Germany in 1913 for Bassett-Lowke, and was…

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Power came to the fore at Dreweatts’ Transport Sale in Newbury on September 19, when a 5in gauge live steam model of a BR Standard Class 9F sold for £19,000. The exhibition quality model, which took 30 years to build, was of No. 92184, a January 1958 Swindon product that was withdrawn from Immingham (40B)…

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Main line railwayana is playing an increasing role in the thrice-yearly sales held by Transport Auctions of London, and this is illustrated by some of the lots that will be going under the hammer at the auction house’s October 27 sale. There will be totem and target station signs, early GWR maps, an original 1840…

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While the LNER will head the cast list at GW Railwayana’s November 17 sale at Pershore, the GWR will make its presence felt with 10 nameplates, backed up by a Royal Scot flying the LMS flag. As reported in Heritage Railway issue 244, nameplates from A3 Pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman and B2/B17 ‘Footballer’ 4-6-0…

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100mph new steam locomotive’s first railtour to Harrogate.

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