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Then there were four
Dr Joseph Brennan brings our series covering Britain’s railway history into the 20th century, when the impact of the First World War saw railway amalgamation reach its most famous form as 120 separate companies were grouped into the‘Big Four’.
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Practice & Performance
Those heading west from Paddington to Cornwall can get there quicker on the summer-dated 12.03 departure, which reaches Plymouth in under three hours after a nonstop run to Exeter, as John Heaton FCILT describes.
Torpedoed!
Four S160 Class locos were lost at sea in April 1943, while crossing the Atlantic to Britain as part of the war effort. Paul Bickerdyke tells the tale, and presents a first-hand account of the sinking from the captain of the cargo vessel torpedoed by a German submarine.
The first railway photo?
The development of railways and photography ran in parallel but, as Phil Marsh asks, does any reader know of an earlier shot than these?
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