Sam Hewitt

  • All change on the Great Northern

    All change on the Great Northern

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    eter Brown takes a ride on the new Class 717 EMUs, which over the next few months will transform Great Northern services.

  • A Phoenix from the Ashes

    A Phoenix from the Ashes

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    If ever a place deserved to rise from the ashes, then it is Sierra Leone’s National Railway Museum (SLNRM). Nicola Fox tells the fascinating history of a museum, whose locomotives were less than a week from being scrapped, plus its on-going British connections. On the western coast of Africa lies a small country with a…

  • Practice & Performance: Thames-Valley transformation

    Practice & Performance: Thames-Valley transformation

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    In the third and final instalment, Keith Farr concludes his analysis of the steam-to-electric transformation the Great Western Main Line has undergone in the Thames Valley. Part two of this series ended with a brief eulogy of Class 387s, the electric trains that have transformed stopping services between Paddington and Didcot. The new EMUs are…

  • March 2019 out now!

    March 2019 out now!

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    This month’s issue of The RM is packed with some great features, the latest news and some fantastic photographs of both heritage and the main line railway.

  • Unrebuilt BOB Bulleid 34072 ‘257 Squadron’

    Unrebuilt BOB Bulleid 34072 ‘257 Squadron’

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    Ben Broomfield sent in these great photographs, check out his story of the unrebuilt BOB Bulleid 34072.

  • Your Gallery | GWR ’41xx’ Class No 4144

    Your Gallery | GWR ’41xx’ Class No 4144

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    Away at Didcot Railway Centre, sent in by Alan Burkwood.

  • Your Gallery | 60163 Tornado- The Auld Reekie

    Your Gallery | 60163 Tornado- The Auld Reekie

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    A1 60163 Tornado with ‘The Auld Reekie’ at Northallerton today on her first railtour in nearly a year, sent in by Tom Noble.

  • Your Gallery | 45596 Bahamas at Langliffe

    Your Gallery | 45596 Bahamas at Langliffe

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    Tom Noble sends his photograph of Jubilee 45596 ‘Bahamas’ with just her second Railtour, ‘Bahamas Railtour 2’ powering up the grade past Langcliffe.

  • Your Gallery | 35018 British India Line

    Your Gallery | 35018 British India Line

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    Ken Abram sent in this great picture as 35018 British India Line waits for the road at Preston.

  • Your Gallery | BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T 80097

    Your Gallery | BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T 80097

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    Alan Spencer sent in this magnificent photograph of BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T.

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