TWO heritage lines have been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. Queen’s Award for East Lancashire and Chasewater volunteers Barclay 0-4-0ST No. 1223 of 1911 Colin McAndrew shunts the Chasewater Railway’s latest acquisition,
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In an unusual move, Peppercorn A1 No. 60163 4-6-2 Tornado was set to work the York to King’s Cross leg of UK Railtours’ modern traction ‘The Diversionary Tactic’ on Saturday, June 11, which would have
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THE Great Central Railway’s ‘Bridging the Gap’ project has been given a £250,000 major vote of confidence by Leicestershire County Council. County council buys a million Great Central Railway shares! Visiting SDJR 2-8-0 No. 53808
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The Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0WT No. 1643 of 1930 No. GP39 – in Surrey County Council Highways Department bright maroon livery, but representative of a type that worked the WW1 trench railways –
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Two passenger trains are seen at Statfold terminus with the train on the left headed by Sragi No. 1, (Krauss, Munich, No. 4045 of 1899), and Sragi No. 14 (Orenstein & Koppel No. 10750 of
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I WAS sad to read of the passing of Ray Towell in issue 214. Former National Railway Museum operations manager Ray Towell (second from right) with former BR drivers on the footplate of City of
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One of the motor coaches from the EPB Preservation Group’s unit No. 7105 under restoration at Eastleigh. BOB BAINES It was with sadness that I read of the notice to leave given by the East
Read moreEleven out of 10 must go to Mark Carne, Phil Verster, Sir Peter Hendy and especially Scottish transport minister, Derek Mackay, for their intervention at one minute to midnight to make Flying Scotsman’s long-planned trips
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Bagnall 0-4-2T Isaac storms the last few yards to Woody Bay with a mixed train from Killington Lane. The spring gala on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway over the weekend of May 14/15 saw the
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The first photograph of the holidays as LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 No. 45593 Kolhapur storms out of Carlisle with the 12.09am to Leeds on Saturday July 2 1966. Fifty years ago, a remarkable variety of steam
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