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Jurassic period is back… after 32 years

13th January 2017 Sam Hewitt News

PRESERVATION pioneer 2ft gauge Peckett 0-6-0ST Jurassic is to return to service on the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway in 2017 after a third of century out of action. Built in 1903 in Bristol by Peckett

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Flying Scotsman sells for £35K!

13th January 2017 Sam Hewitt News

THIS beautiful 5in gauge model of Flying Scotsman sold for £35,400 at Special Auction Services’ 30th Trains Galore auction at Newbury on December 14-15. That was more than double the top end estimate. Originally owned

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A trip to the unknown

13th January 2017 Sam Hewitt Features, News

Britain’s heritage railways may set out to recreate the experience of a bygone age but they still have to interact with the digital age. Peter Brown reports on how the use of social media now

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Era ends as Ian Allan quits railway publishing business

13th January 2017 Sam Hewitt News

IAN Allan – regarded by many as the world’s greatest publisher of railway titles – has pulled out of the sector after more than seven decades. The shock announcement, made before Christmas, has seen Crécy

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British Empire Medal for Didcot’s first lady of steam

13th January 2017 Sam Hewitt News

GREAT Western Society rolling stock company secretary Viv Cooper has been awarded the British Empire Medal in the 2017 New Year’s Honours list for her 53 years of service to railway heritage. Viv, 70, who

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Steam back on London Underground

13th January 2017 Sam Hewitt News

STEAM is set to return to London Underground after an absence of two years. The weekends of September 2-3 and 9-10 have been pencilled in by organiser London Transport Museum for public steam trains over

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Books that inspired so many generations

13th January 2017 Sam Hewitt Editor's Intro, News

There was a time, not so long ago, when the British public woke up to be told there would no longer be Woolworths in the High Street. Now the heritage sector has been told that

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Wissington heads for the Lincolnshire Wolds

23rd December 2016 Sam Hewitt News

THE special guest locomotive at the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway in the spring will be Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST Wissington. Appearing at Ludborough courtesy of owner the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway Society, Wissington will be

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Crowds defy the weather at Last Hurrah

23rd December 2016 Sam Hewitt News

DESPITE patchy weather, passenger numbers at the Last Hurrah, the Great Central Railway’s final gala of the season, were 15% up on the corresponding event last year. The November 19/20 gala featured five locomotives in

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Owner set to ‘scrap’ Class 27 so that Class 21 can appear

23rd December 2016 Sam Hewitt News

By Fred Kerr MID HANTS Railway-based Class 27 D5353/27007, currently resident at Alresford, is to be used to recreate an example of the long-extinct North British Locomotive Company Class Class 21. In early December, the

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