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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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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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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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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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 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
Read moreThere 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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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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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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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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