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A pair of 150-year-old tickets, one from a railway that operated independently for just seven years, will be the centrepiece of Paddington Ticket Auction’s sale in central London on April 21. The older of the two was issued by the Hampstead Junction Railway in the early 1860s for a second class single from Kensal Green…

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Army dignitaries joined North Norfolk Railway staff for the presentation of the third nameplate cast for WD 2-10-0 No. 90775 Royal Norfolk Regiment on March 15. The third solid-brass nameplate, cast at the same time as the two on the locomotive, was presented to representatives of the Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum by the locomotive’s owner,…

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EPPERCORN A1 Pacific No. 60163 Tornado found itself stranded on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway after a skip lorry hit a bridge on Network Rail’s Middlesbrough to Whitby line causing severe structural damage. Northern passenger services between Battersby and Whitby were immediately suspended following the collision on the rail-over-road bridge at the bottom of Langburn’s…

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The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is now in its 50th season of operation. The five-mile branch from Keighley to Oxenhope was reopened as a preserved steam railway on June 29,1968 – just six weeks before the end of steam on British Railways. Appropriately the star visitor for the railway’s first enthusiasts’ event in its…

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THE site for the Bala Lake Railway’s new town centre station has been cleared. The demolition of the derelict warehouse in Heol Aran marked the first physical construction work on the ground-breaking extension of the 2ft gauge railway. The cleared site, where the new Bala Town station building is to be located, has been levelled…

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THE Devon Railway Centre is to celebrate its 20th anniversary with a gala over the weekend of May 12-13. Many of the home-based locomotives will be in use on the centre’s 2ft gauge line alongside the River Exe, including Orenstein & Koppel 0-4-0WT No. 5744 of 1912 Rebecca, the oldest working steam engine in Devon,…

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THE Leighton Buzzard Railway ‘s new season began on Sunday, March 4, when the mayor of Leighton-Linslade, Coun Syed Rahman flag off the first train from Page’s Park and took a ride to Stonehenge, accompanied by town crier Peter Hailes, who announced its departure. The season started two weeks earlier than usual, to coincide with…

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A STEAM locomotive type not seen running in Britain in more than half a century will be one of the stars of the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways’ Hunslet 125 event. The railways will be celebrating the 125th birthdays of former Penrhyn Railway pair Linda and Blanche during the June 22-24 event, at which it…

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INSTEAD OF reaching the end of its line, this locomotive has gone way over it, when around 47 years after it was left hanging over a cliff edge, it has since entered regular service on the Bodmin & Wenford Railway following restoration. Maesteg Comprehensive schoolgirl Linda Paschali, one day in 1971, heard what she thought…

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THE Ecclesbourne Valley Railway’s March 17/18 spring diesel weekend was saved from the sudden and severe winter storms and snow that comprised the second ‘Beast from the East’ to hit the UK last month. Commercial manager Leigh Gration said: “Our team of volunteers worked as one throughout the weekend and made sure we delivered a…

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