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From the archive: Golden Jubilee

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Sam Hewitt

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20th June 2019

50 years ago, the last regular expresses hauled by pre-Nationalisation express steam engines ended; the LMS Jubilee’s last regular turns being on the Settle & Carlisle line.
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tribute to the steam engines bought from BR during the 60s

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd January 2019

Fifty years ago, there was only one standard gauge preserved railway running timetabled steam services and time was running out to save any more main line steam engines for posterity. Brian Sharpe pays tribute to the steam engines purchased from BR during the 1960s to carry on steaming in the first wave of heritage railways…
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Special train to honour all of the GWR fallen

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Sam Hewitt

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9th November 2018

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?

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Sam Hewitt

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10th October 2018

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

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd October 2018

Narrow gauge heritage lines run on former standard gauge trackbeds in many parts of Britain.
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The Sunny South Smiles Again!

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Sam Hewitt

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18th September 2018

Fifty years after the end of Southern steam, passenger services are running again over the entire length of one of the fabled seaside branch lines that served the south coast. While the Swanage Railway has long been hailed as a perfect microcosm of the Southern Railway/Region as it was in the days of steam, it…
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Triumphant ‘Great Britain X’

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Sam Hewitt

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11th September 2018

The annual round trip with steam from London to the Scottish Highlands and Penzance has had its ups and downs in recent years, but this year’s tour will go down in history as one of the very best of them all. Brian Sharpe reports on a classic trip with some commendable locomotive performances. The Railway…
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40 years of the Nene Valley Railway

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Sam Hewitt

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4th September 2018

This year sees a number of significant anniversaries being celebrated. Brian Sharpe recounts the story of one of Britain’s heritage lines which has now been running trains for 40 years. The Nene Valley Railway has its origins in the boom in new preserved steam railway schemes in the 1960s but in this case the line…
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READ: Flying Scotsman’s magnificent month

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Sam Hewitt

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17th August 2018

Tornado may have run at more than 100mph, emulating Flying Scotsman’s world record feat of 1934, but its crowd-pulling April tour proved that it is not ready to concede its crown as the world’s most famous steam locomotive to the young pretender yet!
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FEATURE: Robert Riddles, Britain’s last steam chief mechanical engineer

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Sam Hewitt

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10th August 2018

Concluding the series on the Big Four CMEs, Brian Sharpe examines the career of Robert Riddles
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