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  • Council approves historic Wolverton Works demolition

    Council approves historic Wolverton Works demolition

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Phil Marsh THE demolition of Wolverton Works – the world’s oldest, longest continually open standard gauge railway works – was sanctioned at a Milton Keynes Council planning meeting on November 17. The council’s development control committee approved the controversial outline planning application of the property developer and owners of the Works, St Modwen’s. There…

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  • SVR comeback pannier passes first loaded test

    SVR comeback pannier passes first loaded test

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Paul Appleton GWR 0-6-0PT No. 7714 has made its first loaded test runs at the Severn Valley Railway and is set to make its public debut during the line’s busy festive season. Having just missed out on the SVR’s Season Finale gala – where it was due to star alongside fellow returnee 0-6-0ST No.…

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  • Ten of the best for South Devon

    Ten of the best for South Devon

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE South Devon Railway has won the Heritage Railway Association Interpretation Award – bringing to 10 the total honours won by the Buckfastleigh line in 2016. The award, sponsored by Heritage Railway magazine, is to be presented to the railway for the completion of a new – yet authentic – GWR country station at Totnes…

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  • Swanage to bring in TOC to run Wareham services

    Swanage to bring in TOC to run Wareham services

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Swanage Railway is in talks with Train Operating Companies about running its debut services to Wareham, which are due to start in June 2017. However, concerns have been expressed with the delayed delivery of two heritage DMU sets, currently being overhauled and upgraded at Eastleigh, and financed with the aid of a £1.47 million…

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  • Lewes & East Grinstead Railway: The Bluebell Line

    Lewes & East Grinstead Railway: The Bluebell Line

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Richard C Long (hardback, Ian Allan, 112pp, £19.99, ISBN 978 0 7110 3851 6). Here is a new biography of the Bluebell Line so beloved by battleaxe Madge Bessemer, whose protests earned the LBSCR cross-country route sufficient breathing space for a ground-breaking preservation society to establish a foothold on it, sowing the seeds of…

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  • The man who bought the Corris Railway pair

    The man who bought the Corris Railway pair

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In issue 222, I loved Geoff Silcock’s Last Beasts of Man, Graig Merthyr – vintage railway heritage, great stuff. An ex miner told me in or around 1980 that he and his mates were struggling to mine anthracite from a vein only 18in deep in the final few weeks at Graig Merthyr, so it really…

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  • The 21st century Railway Children!

    The 21st century Railway Children!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is world famous as the setting for EMI’s immortal big-screen version of Edith A Nesbit’s novel The Railway Children. However, the heritage line is now leading the way with a ground-breaking new visitor attraction, Rail Story, based around a coach which has been converted into a classroom to teach…

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  • The Longmoor military railway

    The Longmoor military railway

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Few people are fully aware to what extent the railways, and certain sections of the army, were able to play such a large part in assisting the war effort during the two world wars. Brian Bell, who served at Longmoor in the 1950s, outlines how both the Allies and the Germans realised just how strategic…

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  • A Herefordhsire Gem

    A Herefordhsire Gem

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    Sam Hewitt

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    One name is synonymous with narrow gauge locomotive restoration and new-build projects. Mark Smithers reports on progress to be seen at an open day at Alan Keef Ltd. The name of Alan Keef Ltd will doubtless be familiar to most operators and fans of heritage railways, especially in the narrow gauge field, as its product…

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  • LNER Pacifics contrasted 1922-2016

    LNER Pacifics contrasted 1922-2016

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The London & North Eastern Railway led the way for the 4-6-2 to become the preferred wheel arrangement for British express steam power. Brian Sharpe delves into the contrasting way the various types evolved. The London & North Eastern Railway had 140 Pacifics by the end of its existence in 1947, already more than any…

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