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AMIDST a shroud of secrecy, steam traction returned to the London Underground tunnels… Comment on our videos: register or login to add your comments to our video features below. As a precursor to next year¹s celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway, and to help raise £250,000 to fund the overhaul of…

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A dozen LNER loco’s line up for a fantastic ‘Fab Four’ event at Barrow Hill. Comment on our videos: register or login to add your comments to our video features below. Once the pride of the London & North Eastern Railway, a round dozen of their finest preserved locos are rubbing shoulders at Britain’s only…

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AS first revealed in Heritage Railway last August, ‘exiled’ LNER A4 Pacific No. 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower and sister No. 60010 Dominion of Canada have begun their journeys home to Britain. Comment on our videos: register or login to add your comments to our video features below. On Saturday July 28, the delicate operation of…

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Many said it would never happen, but the repatriation of the two exiled A4 Pacifics from North America made British railway history at Liverpool Docks on Wednesday October 3. No. 60010 Dominion of Canada is seen arriving back on British soil around 8.20pm. Comment on our videos: register or login to add your comments to…

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Preservation history unfolds: after a week’s voyage across the Atlantic from Halifax in Nova Scotia, repatriated A4 Pacific No. 60008 Dwight D. Eisenhower touched down on British soil for the first time in nearly half a century at Liverpool Docks at 7.25am on Wednesday October 3. ROBIN JONES Comment on our videos: register or login…

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GWR 4-6-0 No. 4953 Pitchford Hall on a Up train at Marconi bridge on the Epping Ongar Railway, filmed on 11/11 (hence the Poppy). Comment on our videos: register or login to add your comments to our video features below.

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A steam-hauled passenger train ran through part of the Metropolitan Railway tunnels for the first time since 1905. Comment on our videos: register or login to add your comments to our video features below.

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Two years of meticulous planning finally bore fruit on Sunday, January 13 when a complete Victorian teak train was hauled by Metropolitan Railway E class 0-4-4T No. 1 from Kensington Olympia to Moorgate. The seven-and-a-half-mile trip exclusively carrying VIP guests was the first of a series of groundbreaking public steam trips through the London Underground…

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Celebrating the return of the six remaining A4s a the York National Rail Museum, July 3, 2013. Comment on our videos: register or login to add your comments to our video features below.

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