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  • Your Gallery | 34092 City of Wells

    Your Gallery | 34092 City of Wells

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    Oliver Brooke sent in this picture!

  • Layouts to Love: Where railway modelling dreams begin

    Layouts to Love: Where railway modelling dreams begin

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    RMM visited two recent exhibitions, at Altrincham and Leamington Spa, and was delighted by what was in store at both.

  • What’s in the Shops: Streamlined ‘Duchess’ duo from Hornby

    What’s in the Shops: Streamlined ‘Duchess’ duo from Hornby

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    Hornby releases two more LMS ‘Duchesses’, this time with LMS crimson lake and gilt streamlining and in single and double-chimney forms.  The release of two more streamlined ‘Princess Coronation’ or ‘Duchess’ 4-6-2 express passenger locomotives by Hornby means that the LMS modeller is now well catered for with the iconic express passenger locomotives of the…

  • Nene Valley’s ‘tender loving care’ aids Moors 9F

    Nene Valley’s ‘tender loving care’ aids Moors 9F

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    THE tender from the Nene Valley Railway’s BR 5MT No. 73050 City of Peterborough moved to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

  • Glasgow Central’s ‘ghost platform’to become heritage museum

    Glasgow Central’s ‘ghost platform’to become heritage museum

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    A FORGOTTEN platform beneath Glasgow Central station may be developed into a railway heritage museum – complete with a steam train parked on a stretch of relaid track. The platform, which closed 55 years ago, dates from the opening of the station’s low-level section in 1896, when it operated as a separate entity to Glasgow…

  • Timetabled steam back on track in Russia after 43 years

    Timetabled steam back on track in Russia after 43 years

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    A SCHEDULED steam train has been introduced in Russia for the first time in 43 years. Steam is being used to haul a regular suburban train from Bologoe to Ostashkov in the Tver region every Saturday. The train leaves Bologoe (around 220 miles from Moscow) at 9.25am and arrives at 1.10pm, stopping inbetween at Bologoe-Polotskoe,…

  • Drumboe crowdfunding appeal launched on Valentine’s Day

    Drumboe crowdfunding appeal launched on Valentine’s Day

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    By Hugh Dougherty A €60,000 (£55,000) crowdfunding drive to bring County Donegal Railways 2-6-4T Drumboe back to Donegal Town was launched by County Donegal Railways Restoration Limited at Harvey’s Point Hotel on St Valentine’s Day. The hotel, situated near to the former Lough Eske station on the CDR’s Donegal-Stranorlar main line, is hosting a third-scale…

  • Help save North British tank for possible repatriation

    Help save North British tank for possible repatriation

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    AN appeal has been launched to save a North British 4-8-2T from being scrapped in South Africa – and maybe to return it to Britain for overhaul to working order. The North British Locomotion Preservation Group is offering £25 shares in 3ft 6in gauge No. 25916 of 1945, one of the last survivors of a…

  • Where 31 Jolly Runners beat the train along the Dart!

    Where 31 Jolly Runners beat the train along the Dart!

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    SUNDAY, February 17 saw Devon running business ‘Jolly Running’ host the inaugural ‘Beat the Train’ 12-kilometre race based at the South Devon Railway’s Totnes Riverside station. A special steam train park and ride service from Buckfastleigh was used by many of the runners to arrive by rail at the early morning event. On arrival at…

  • Search for contractor delays J21 locomotive overhaul start

    Search for contractor delays J21 locomotive overhaul start

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    The Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust continues to search for a contractor to carry out the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed overhaul of NER J21 0-6-0 No. 65033. LCLT chairman Toby Watkins said: “We’ve received formal permission from the HLF to start and the money is there, but we’ve been unable to select a contractor to overhaul…

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