Sam Hewitt

  • New Broadway footbridge taking shape at fast pace

    New Broadway footbridge taking shape at fast pace

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    EXCLUSIVE By Ian Crowder PROGRESS at the award-winning Broadway station has just taken a big leap forward… at least visually. Platform 2 at the station, which remains out of use to passengers this year, has not only been cleared of the signalling and communications equipment stored on the platform, but the basic structure for the…

  • Soaraway Broadway success makes Glos Warks best in Britain

    Soaraway Broadway success makes Glos Warks best in Britain

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    REMARKABLE figures which showed that passenger numbers on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway rose by 42.5% in the wake of the Good Friday opening of the northern extension to Broadway have brought the coveted Heritage Railway Association’s Annual Award (Large Groups) 2019 to the Cotswold Line. The figures rose from 101,000 in 2017 to more than…

  • Bachmann 2019: Few new diesel & electric models announced

    Bachmann 2019: Few new diesel & electric models announced

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    The new factory in Gaobu is now operational which should see ‘OO and ‘N’ models released steadily during the year.

  • St Ann’s Cove: A bit more mess, a few more buildings

    St Ann’s Cove: A bit more mess, a few more buildings

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    Progress continues on RMM’s N-scale St Ann’s Cove project by hacking out the central landscape section from polystyrene batons.

  • John M Rodway’s Tales From Knottewithought Junction: The Beast of Knottewith Sidings

    John M Rodway’s Tales From Knottewithought Junction: The Beast of Knottewith Sidings

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    The sun rose suddenly over the Valley of the River Knotte. In this part of the county there were never any gloriously unfolding dawns or magic transitions through twilight to calm dusks. It was either bright day or dark night, and had been like this for as long as anyone could remember. There were three…

  • Epping Ongar: The line that refused to die

    Epping Ongar: The line that refused to die

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    Craig Amess tells the story of the never-say-die Epping to Ongar line that’s been transformed into a thriving heritage railway whose scenic locations, locomotives, rolling stock and buildings present some intriguing modelling opportunities for steam and diesel enthusiasts alike.    The story of the Epping Ongar Railway in south-west Essex started in the 1860s, but…

  • THE KING’S CROSS STORY  200 YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE RAILWAY LANDS

    THE KING’S CROSS STORY 200 YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE RAILWAY LANDS

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    By Peter Darley THIS is a superb book. Peter Darley tells the story of the Great Northern’s King’s Cross station and the extensive nearby ‘Railway Lands’ during the last 200 years.  The term Railway Lands refers to such things as associated stations, numerous goods depots, potato markets, locomotive sheds and works, coal yards, coal drops…

  • GOS completes ‘ElecLink’ wagon

    GOS completes ‘ElecLink’ wagon

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    AN interesting contract to create a second HVDC (High Voltage Direct Current) electrical connection between the UK and France via the Channel Tunnel has required the creation of a battery-powered specialist construction train on behalf of Balfour Beatty. Known as ‘ElecLink’, the 1-Gigawatt connector, comprising two 30-mile cables, will be laid through the North Running…

  • Wensleydale beckons for resurgent Tornado

    Wensleydale beckons for resurgent Tornado

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    THE A1 Steam Locomotive Trust’s flagship Peppercorn Pacific No. 60163 Tornado will break new ground for the type later this month when it visits the Wensleydale Railway (WR). Tornado ventured back onto the main line on January 15 – the first time since its failure on the ‘Ebor Flyer’ last April.  This move followed lengthy repairs…

  • Loaded test runs for 80097 after hot ’box troubles

    Loaded test runs for 80097 after hot ’box troubles

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    RIDDLES ‘4MT’ 2-6-4T No. 80097 was back on test at the East Lancashire Railway as 2019 got underway, having been side-lined with axlebox problems in November. The Bury Standard 4 Group loco began running-in trials following its post-restoration appearance at the ELR’s October 19-21 Autumn Steam Gala, but had to be withdrawn on November 14 when…

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