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Safety and security must come first

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Sam Hewitt

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21st September 2018

During my two decades in railway journalism, conflicts between the requirements of rails and the ambitions of cyclepath promoters have often been vexed issues, the latest manifestation being the controversy over the use of the footbridge that links Totnes to the South Devon Railway’s Totnes (Riverside) terminus and the town’s magnificent rare breeds farm next…
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VIDEO: Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways Garratt No. 87

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Sam Hewitt

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20th September 2018

Check out this exhilarating ride behind Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways Garratt No. 87
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Farewell to steam owner extraordinare Dennis!

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Sam Hewitt

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19th September 2018

Dennis Howells’ name will be familiar to all Heritage Railway readers. This is the mark of the man, who is possibly best known today for his go-anywhere WR Hawksworth-design 0-6-0PT No. 9466, which he owned for 41 years, restoring it from a Barry scrapyard to concourse condition, operating across swathes of the national and preserved…
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Fundraisers celebrate as railway path reopening moves step closer

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Sam Hewitt

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19th September 2018

By Geoff Courtney Members of the Lake District Foundation are celebrating the success of a campaign to raise funds towards the reopening of part of the former Cockermouth Keswick & Penrith Railway, a popular path until being devastated by floods nearly three years ago. The three miles of trackbed between Keswick and Threlkeld had become…
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Appeal for Great Central Railway’s canal bridge reaches £250k

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Sam Hewitt

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19th September 2018

The Great Central Railway’s nationwide appeal for funds to repair a Victorian cast iron bridge over the Grand Union Canal as part of its plans to create an 18-mile inter-city heritage line has raised more than £250,000. An essential part of the project to link the GCR to its northern sister, the Great Central Railway…
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Crowds drawn to Welshpool & Llanfair Railway gala this month

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Sam Hewitt

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19th September 2018

Visitors were not in short supply at the annual Welshpool & Llanfair Railway gala, held between Friday, August 31 and Sunday, September 2. One of the highlights of the narrow gauge scene’s calendar, as is tradition, the Mid Wales 2ft 6in gauge line operated its most intensive timetable of the year – but with some…
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A1 Trust launches new V4 subsidiary for new-build

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Sam Hewitt

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19th September 2018

TORNADO builder The A1 Steam Locomotive Trust has launched a new subsidiary to build a Gresley V4 2-6-2 at a cost of around £3 million. The trust has acquired more than 500 original class V4 drawings from Malcolm Barlow, a Doncaster scrap dealer who launched the now-defunct Gresley V4 Society in 1994 to build a…
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Duchess of Sutherland is back in its birthday suit!

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Sam Hewitt

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19th September 2018

Princess Coronation 4-6-2 No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland is back in steam – and also in its original LMS crimson lake livery to mark its 80th birthday. Following the completion of a major overhaul, a special ‘roll out day’ was held on Sunday, September 9 at the iconic 1938-built locomotive’s base – the West Shed…
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Sam Hewitt

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17th September 2018

Golden memories as ‘Streak’ in the spotlight The smokebox numberplate from LNER A4 No. 60031 Golden Plover will head the line-up at a Thirsk Railwayana Auctions’ sale in North Yorkshire on September 22. The Gresley Pacific was built at Doncaster in October 1937 and withdrawn from Glasgow’s St Rollox shed (65B) in October 1965. Another…
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Countrywide selection scales the heights at ticket sale

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Sam Hewitt

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17th September 2018

A collection of 800 mostly BR, but also pre-Nationalisation, platform tickets from all the regions topped the charts among the railway ticket realisations at Paddington Ticket Auctions’ sale in central London on July 21, with a hammer price of £780. An even larger collection, comprising 1500 rail tickets also both pre and post-Nationalisation and mostly…
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