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Category: From the archive

The Last Haydn Jones Train commemoration

20th November 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive, Steam

In the Autumn of 1950 the future of the Talyllyn Railway was very much in doubt.

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Dinmore and more and more!

20th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

The locomotives owned by Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd have earned themselves a reputation for reliability and good performance during their various spells in traffic. Yet

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Centenarian cameraman: Ron Buckley – Britain’s Oldest Railway Photographer: Part Two

13th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Chris Milner concludes his interview with 100-year-old photographer Ron Buckley, who returned from wartime military service to a railway preparing for Nationalisation. AFTER leaving England

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Delivering a bigger, better railway for Scotland

6th October 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

With new and refurbished trains on the way, a rolling programme of electrification, and a devolved Government committed to further expansion, Scotland is showing other

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Switzerland’s mountain railways keeping communities alive

21st September 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive, World

Every year millions of people from all over the world squeeze into little trains in Switzerland, hoping to experience unforgettable mountain vistas and clean Alpine air.

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The Aln Valley Railway – then and now

14th September 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Alan Barnes is a regular visitor to the North East. Here, he takes a look at the history of the Aln Valley Railway and its

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CENTENARIAN CAMERAMAN: Ron Buckley – Britain’s Oldest Railway Photographer

4th September 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Chris Milner meets a railway photographer with a fascinating past, who took his first railway picture in the 1930s, but also spent more than 40

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Trips with a difference: 40 years of rail ale rambles

28th August 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Dave Richardson recalls more than 40 years of connecting railways with beer festivals and brewery visits, organised by former Salisbury area BR manager Gerald Daniels.

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Remembering Richard Hardy

21st August 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Richard Hardy, who died on February 18 2018, aged 94, was one of the last remaining professional links with the ‘Big Four’ and a railwayman

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THEN & NOW: Years Apart… Bestwood Park Junction, Nottingham

14th August 2020 Sam Hewitt Features, From the archive

Our occasional series of then and now ‘views’ normally show where the railway has been closed, and in many cases the trackbed returned to nature.

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