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Headboard memories for trainspotters of a certain age

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

Two headboards will bring back memories for we trainspotters.
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Vintage Trains plans to run 30 day tours in 2019

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

By Cedric Johns VINTAGE Trains has announced its first season of tours as a Train Operating Company. The publication of the 2019 itinerary coincided with Tyseley Locomotive Works’ flagship WR 4-6-0 No. 7029 Clun Castle successfully completing its main line proving runs to and from Stratford-upon-Avon in February, as outlined on News, pages10/11. Testing over,…
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Bahamas makes a triumphant return

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

February 9 and 16 were landmark days for the Bahamas Locomotive Society.
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Last days of the East Kent Railway

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

I was at boarding school at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate in 1951. As a railway enthusiast I was delighted to be in a house whose housemaster had a full bound set of The Railway Magazine in his study, which he lent me one by one. Somehow, I learned that the East Kent Railway was going…
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Our steam odyssey in 1967

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

I was interested to read the article by Trevor Gregg about his 1967 camping coach holiday, in issue 251. A friend and I purchased a week’s railrover ticket for the princely sum of £18 and set off from Kent in May 1967, to visit as many of the remaining steam locomotive depots as we could…
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Don’t ruin wonderful Midsomer Norton station

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

I had to look twice at the date of the latest issue of Heritage Railway (No. 250 – congratulations), as I thought the article on page 35, about Midsomer Norton must have been an April Fool. As anyone who has been to this station knows, it is a classic small town station, complete with goods…
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Great steam Engineers of the nineteenth century: Part 5 – the 1860s

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

Steam locomotives grew larger, more powerful and faster during the 1860s. Brian Sharpe outlines how the jobs of the locomotive superintendents of the major railway companies also grew ever larger, in terms of their responsibilities and the huge workforces under their control. The 1860s was a time of expansion for the GWR. After the Gauge…
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Your Gallery | 7029 “Clun Castle”

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Sam Hewitt

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8th April 2019

GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 Number 7029 “Clun Castle” heads through Purton.
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Your Gallery | 34092 City of Wells

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Sam Hewitt

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8th April 2019

Oliver Brooke sent in this picture!
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Nene Valley’s ‘tender loving care’ aids Moors 9F

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Gareth Evans

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5th April 2019

THE tender from the Nene Valley Railway’s BR 5MT No. 73050 City of Peterborough moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
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