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The Greatest Gathering: A Railway 200 labyrinth of history and marvels
More than 40,000 visitors, some from as far afield as New Zealand, attended the sell-out three-day Greatest Gathering at Alstom’s Litchurch Lane Works in Derby for what has been hailed as the world’s largest-ever collection of historic and modern rolling stock – and a pinnacle of the Railway 200 programme proudly celebrating the bicentenary of the world’s first modern passenger railway, reports Robin Jones.
Cometh the hour, cometh Locomotion No.1!
The replica of the world’s first modern train will run over the route of the Stockton & Darlington Railway this September, as it did 150 years ago. Robin Jones outlines the events for what is set to be a landmark in British heritage.
Sixty-five years of Steaming through Sussex
Over a three-day weekend in early August, the Bluebell Railway celebrated its 65th anniversary by holding an all-out gala. Owen Hayward details the proceedings, which were rounded off with a spectacular parade of locomotives.
Doing things the South Devon way
Owen Hayward spoke to South Devon Railway general manager Ernie Ellsworth-Wilson about the challenges of being a line in a predominantly tourist-focused part of the country and the steps being taken to help safeguard its future.
Plus much more!
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