Merchant Navy

Standard fayre at Poynton

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Sam Hewitt

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9th April 2019

MOST of the Big Four’s flagship express locomotives were handsome beasts.
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Life in the Booking Office

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Sam Hewitt

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13th February 2019

Adam Carpenter shares his experiences of volunteering as a booking clerk and porter at the Epping Ongar Railway on the increasingly-popular Essex heritage line. My very first real railway memory involves heritage traction. In 1993, at the age of seven, I attended an event to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the short…
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Two weeks on and the tills ring at Stoneleigh

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Sam Hewitt

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13th February 2019

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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