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  • Two weeks on and the tills ring at Stoneleigh

    Two weeks on and the tills ring at Stoneleigh

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Heading the line-up were nameplates from two Southern Railway Pacifics – Cunard White Star from Merchant Navy No. 35004 (£42,000) and Dorchester with the county town’s coat-of-arms from West Country No. 34042 (£38,000). Just two weeks after GW Railwayana achieved a world record £64,500 for a nameplate from LNER No. 60103 Flying Scotsman, as reported…

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  • Reasons why The Great Bear failed

    Reasons why The Great Bear failed

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I note the plaintive appeal from D Martin in Platform, issue 248, for the reincarnation of The Great Bear. This is not the first time this sentiment has been aired in the pages of Heritage Railway. The fact of the matter is the designer G J Churchward, the world’s foremost designer of his age, saw…

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  • No. 5619 is Severn Valley’s latest spring gala visitor

    No. 5619 is Severn Valley’s latest spring gala visitor

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    Gareth Evans

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    The Severn Valley Railway (SVR) has confirmed the latest visiting locomotive for its spring steam gala is GWR 0-6-2T No. 5619. The third visiting locomotive for the March 15-17 gala, billed by the SVR as a Great Western branchline bonanza, joins Llangollen Railway-based pannier tank No. 6430 and Didcot Railway Centre-based ‘Large Prairie’ No. 4144.…

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  • Urgent £120k Appeal launched to save Prairie No. 4110 for West Somerset Railway

    Urgent £120k Appeal launched to save Prairie No. 4110 for West Somerset Railway

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    Gareth Evans

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    AN appeal for £120,000 has been launched to save GWR Large Prairie 2-6-2T No. 4110 for the West Somerset Railway (WSR) by members of the line’s Mechanical Engineering Department. In a statement, the group said: “News of the challenges currently facing the WSR have recently become public. In order for these challenges to be corrected,…

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