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  • Practice & Performance: Diversionary Tactics

    Practice & Performance: Diversionary Tactics

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    The recent closure of Whiteball Tunnel for three weeks has given John Heaton FCILT an opportunity to compare performances of HSTs and IETs over less familiar routes from Exeter.  THE former London & South Western Route to the west came into its own again for three weeks in February/March 2019.  What do you do on…

  • Your Gallery | Bahamas Railtour II

    Your Gallery | Bahamas Railtour II

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    At Selside, with quite a strong wind blowing the exhaust, and at Gargrave crossing the river Aire, sent in by Pam Whitehead.

  • Vandals hit West Somerset Railway

    Vandals hit West Somerset Railway

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    Estimated £1,000 worth of damage caused by smashed windows in Mk.1 carriage.

  • Your Gallery | Union of South Africa

    Your Gallery | Union of South Africa

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    Brian Newton sent in this photo of A4 Pacific No. 60009 “Union of South Africa”.

  • Ron Buckley, Britain’s oldest railway photographer

    Ron Buckley, Britain’s oldest railway photographer

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    Chris Milner met centenarian Ron Buckley, a railway photographer with a fascinating past, who took his first railway picture in the 1930s, but also spent more than 40 years employed by both the LMS and BR.

  • Your Gallery | Jubilee 45690 at Ribblehead

    Your Gallery | Jubilee 45690 at Ribblehead

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    Jubilee 45690 “Leander” coasts across the viaduct at Ribblehead.

  • Hornby’s ‘Electric Scot’

    Hornby’s ‘Electric Scot’

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    Hornby’s ‘OO’ gauge Class 87 model is now available in the shops, including an original BR blue version of the 1970 and early 1980s, writes Nigel Burkin.

  • Steam, diesel and electric on show at Long Rock open day

    Steam, diesel and electric on show at Long Rock open day

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    An open day at Long Rock depot, Penzance, was attended by several thousand visitors, who witnessed a wide array of motive power celebrating Cornwall’s railways. Proceeds from the event – held on April 13 and organised by GWR – will be donated to the RNLI Penlee lifeboat station, in nearby Newlyn.  The lifeboat theme was…

  • ‘Lizzie’ returns to main line following Carnforth boiler repairs

    ‘Lizzie’ returns to main line following Carnforth boiler repairs

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    Stanier ‘Princess Royal’ Pacific No. 6201 Princess Elizabeth is back and ready for a return to main line duties.

  • The coaling plant story: Towers of Strength

    The coaling plant story: Towers of Strength

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    The demolition of Immingham’s mechanical coaling plant last year has left Britain with just one example of these huge ferro-concrete monoliths.


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