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J21 restoration project makes January start for 2022 target

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

NEARLY two years after announcing that it had secured Heritage Lottery Fund support to restore the now unique J21 0-6-0 No. 65033, its owners are finally beginning the work. Since receiving a £954,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant in March 2016, the Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust has been awaiting formal permission to start the restoration…
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Bahamas and B12 set to draw crowds at Keighley’s March gala

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

THE Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s March 8-10 spring steam gala looks set to be a ‘must-attend’ event, with recently-overhauled LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 No. 45596 Bahamas to be joined by LNER B12 4-6-0 No. 8572. Bahamas will be making its first gala appearance on a heritage line in more than 25 years, shortly after its…
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Catterick Camp Military line remembered in stone

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

Word and pictures by Maurice Burns ON December 11, a railway-themed memorial was unveiled at the Catterick Military Camp near Richmond in North Yorkshire marking a century since the end of hostilities in the First World War. The memorial is unusual in that it is a North Eastern Railway Class J72 0-6-0T identical to the…
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Your Gallery | Mayflower in Preston

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Sam Hewitt

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25th January 2019

BR built Thompson B1 no 61306 Mayflower seen here at Preston
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Your Gallery | 5199 and 41312 at Ropley

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Sam Hewitt

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24th January 2019

Jim Carruthers has sent in great pictures of 5199 and 41312 at Ropley.
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Your Gallery | 60163 ‘Tornado’

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Sam Hewitt

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21st January 2019

Check out Roger’s pic of the 60163 ‘Tornado’.
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Locomotive Performance | Then and Now

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Sam Hewitt

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18th January 2019

Don Benn describes the performance of Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line.
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The Evans return to Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways

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Sam Hewitt

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17th January 2019

Heritage Railway magazine deputy editor returned ‘home’ to his native Mid Wales.
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Great steam engineers of the nineteenth century: PART IIII

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Sam Hewitt

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16th January 2019

Brian Sharpe outlines how the role of the chief mechanical engineer developed during the 1840s.
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Great Steam Engineers of the Nineteenth Century: Part III

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Sam Hewitt

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14th January 2019

The 1830s saw the railway building mania accelerate dramatically.
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