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  • Fifty years ago: New trains for the Northern and Piccadilly lines

    Fifty years ago: New trains for the Northern and Piccadilly lines

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    From the January 1972 edition of The Railway Magazine Authority has been given to London Transport by the Greater London Council to place orders for 121 new Underground trains of a total cost of nearly £39m. The order should qualify for a Government infrastructure grant of 75 per cent., with the remaining 25 per cent.…

  • Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive

    Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive

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    It is not often the name of a railway locomotive becomes adopted as an everyday saying in the English language, but many believe that happened in the case of the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive. Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones has the story.

  • Raising the roof at Bridgnorth

    Raising the roof at Bridgnorth

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    Fifty-one years after it launched its first public services, the Severn Valley Railway has been meticulously planning a civil engineering operation that is essential to keep one of the world’s leading heritage lines at the forefront of steam locomotive maintenance and operation for the next half century. John Titlow reports on the planned operation to…

  • Book of the Week: 50 Years of Railways Around Bristol

    Book of the Week: 50 Years of Railways Around Bristol

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    Telling the story of Bristol area railways over the last 50 years, this publication is lavishly illustrated, including many photos taken by rail employees that give a unique insight to railways around Bristol and the surrounding area. Included are well-known locations but also railway byways and those serving industrial Avonmouth, now long lost. Also with…

  • National Railway Museum Appoints Railway Partnerships Manager

    National Railway Museum Appoints Railway Partnerships Manager

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    The National Railway Museum in York has appointed Paddy McNulty as Railway Partnerships Manager.

  • Fantastic Christmas subscriptions on all your favourite railway titles at Classic Magazines!

    Fantastic Christmas subscriptions on all your favourite railway titles at Classic Magazines!

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    Christmas is just around the corner, meaning it’s the perfect time to grab a last-minute gift for the Railway enthusiasts in your life, or even for yourself as an early Christmas treat!

  • Book of the Week: Model Railways Explained

    Book of the Week: Model Railways Explained

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    Author Brian Lamber writes: “My hobby has been model railways for many years since I was given a Tri-ang Princess Elizabeth train set for Christmas as an eight-year-old schoolboy.

  • End of the line for ‘Number Nine’

    End of the line for ‘Number Nine’

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    LNER A4 Pacific No. 60009 Union of South Africa was set to appear in the East Lancashire Railway’s 2021 Autumn Steam Gala but fate stepped in. The 4-6-2 was withdrawn from traffic less than a week before. Cedric Johns and Robin Jones look back at its illustrious history.

  • Book of the Week: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire Steam Railway Journey

    Book of the Week: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire Steam Railway Journey

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    The history and the remarkable rebuilding of the former section of the Great Western Railway from Broadway to Cheltenham Racecourse by the volunteer-led Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway has been well documented.

  • Book of the Week: Lament for a Branch Line

    Book of the Week: Lament for a Branch Line

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    As a born and bred Prestonian, young David took the opportunity to go train spotting at Preston station, within sight and sound of the much-lamented Southport branch line.


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