Bagnall

Pioneering WSR Bagnall steams again on Tyneside

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Sam Hewitt

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4th March 2019

A LOCOMOTIVE which worked on the West Somerset Railway in its early years has returned to steam after 11 years. Bagnall New Standard 18 class 0-6-0ST No. 2994 Vulcan, more recently known as No. 401 Thomas Burt MP, is now based at the North Tyneside Steam Railway, and was steamed on January 17 for the…
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Six GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon

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Sam Hewitt

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27th February 2019

A RAKE of six BR 16T ‘Windcutter’ mineral wagons, borrowed from the Great Central Railway on a 10-year loan, will be first run in public by custodian the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway at its May 26-27 ‘Coal Train Weekend.’ The wagons have moved to Blaenavon on an initial 10-year loan (HR 249), with a subsequent…
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Yet another steam fleet addition for the Moors

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Sam Hewitt

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18th February 2019

By Roger Melton AFTER many years of operating with the Lambton, Hetton & Joicey 0-6-2Ts as its smallest steam engines, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has added Cockerill 0-4-0T tram engine Lucie to its fleet – primarily to act as a self-propelling steam heating plant. Now a second industrial tank is poised to be…
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