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  • Our steam odyssey in 1967

    Our steam odyssey in 1967

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    I was interested to read the article by Trevor Gregg about his 1967 camping coach holiday, in issue 251. A friend and I purchased a week’s railrover ticket for the princely sum of £18 and set off from Kent in May 1967, to visit as many of the remaining steam locomotive depots as we could…

  • Don’t ruin wonderful Midsomer Norton station

    Don’t ruin wonderful Midsomer Norton station

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    I had to look twice at the date of the latest issue of Heritage Railway (No. 250 – congratulations), as I thought the article on page 35, about Midsomer Norton must have been an April Fool.  As anyone who has been to this station knows, it is a classic small town station, complete with goods…

  • Your Gallery | 7029 “Clun Castle”

    Your Gallery | 7029 “Clun Castle”

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    GWR Castle Class 4-6-0 Number 7029 “Clun Castle” heads through Purton.

  • 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…

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