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On this day: Mallard breaks steam locomotive world speed record

3rd July 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, News
Mallard sign

On 3 July 1938, the A4 class locomotive Mallard raced down Stoke Bank at 126mph to set a new steam locomotive world speed record. That record still stands.

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The story of London’s little-known narrow gauge underground line

23rd April 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive, Narrow Gauge, Network, World

Heritage Railway visited the latest and most unusual tourist attraction to open in the capital.

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Returning No. 35005 Canadian Pacific to action

25th February 2020 Sam Hewitt Features
No 35005 Canadian Pacific

The restoration of the Mid-Hants Railway’s Merchant Navy 4-6-2 No. 35005 Canadian Pacific (CP) is more that ‘just’ a locomotive overhaul.

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The ‘Wansbeck Piper’: A 1960s steam tour

7th February 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, Steam

Discover the Wansbeck Valley Railway in rural Northumberland, 53 years ago, on the ‘Wansbeck Piper’, the final train to travel over the route.

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10 Christmas gift ideas for a rail enthusiast!

9th November 2018 Sam Hewitt Christmas Gift Guide, Features, News

Check out the exclusive Heritage Railway Christmas Gift Guide!

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Special train to honour all of the GWR fallen

9th November 2018 Sam Hewitt Features, News

All 2,545 Great Western Railway workers who died during the war to be named on special train.

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Should Britain’s heritage railways embrace digital age?

10th October 2018 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

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.

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Brecon Mountain Railway & its transatlantic flavour

3rd October 2018 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Narrow gauge heritage lines run on former standard gauge trackbeds in many parts of Britain.

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Bitesize Driving: Our list of top low-cost driver experience courses

2nd October 2018 Sam Hewitt Features, News

Gareth Evans talks to eight heritage railways operating low-cost driver experience courses for £20

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Top railway museum to reopen after rescue by new owners

25th September 2018 Sam Hewitt News

One of Australia’s leading railway museums, which was for many years home to a number of British-built steam locomotives including one of the world’s largest operational preserved engines, has been saved nearly two years after

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