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Unrebuilt BOB Bulleid 34072 ‘257 Squadron’
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Ben Broomfield sent in these great photographs, check out his story of the unrebuilt BOB Bulleid 34072.
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Your Gallery | GWR ’41xx’ Class No 4144
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Away at Didcot Railway Centre, sent in by Alan Burkwood.
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Your Gallery | 60163 Tornado- The Auld Reekie
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A1 60163 Tornado with ‘The Auld Reekie’ at Northallerton today on her first railtour in nearly a year, sent in by Tom Noble.
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Your Gallery | 45596 Bahamas at Langliffe
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Tom Noble sends his photograph of Jubilee 45596 ‘Bahamas’ with just her second Railtour, ‘Bahamas Railtour 2’ powering up the grade past Langcliffe.
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Your Gallery | 35018 British India Line
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Ken Abram sent in this great picture as 35018 British India Line waits for the road at Preston.
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Your Gallery | BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T 80097
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Alan Spencer sent in this magnificent photograph of BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T.
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GCR to become ‘Cromwell’s’ new custodian?
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THE 14-year relationship between ‘Britannia’ No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell and the 5305 Locomotive Association (5305LA) has come to an end. The BR Pacific’s owner, the National Railway Museum, has decreed the custodial agreement between the two organisations would not be extended. Instead responsibility for the locomotive could be passed directly to the Great Central Railway…
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Another U-turn as WSR plc sells 4110 to Dartmouth line
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THE saga surrounding the sale of West Somerset Railway (WSR)-based GWR 2-6-2T No. 4110 took another unexpected turn on February 3 when it was revealed the unrestored Large Prairie had been sold to the Dartmouth Steam Railway (DSR) at Paignton. The surprise announcement came just three weeks after the loco’s owner – West Somerset Railway…
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Double HRA awards for NER Autocar and Gloucs-Warks
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THE stunning restoration of North Eastern autocar No. 3170 and the extension of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway have both won two major awards at the annual Heritage Railway Association dinner. There were awards in a record 15 categories, which included a completely new award recognising the contribution of a young volunteer. The NER 1903 Electric…
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Remembering hero driver John Axon
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THE Bahamas Locomotive Society organised a civic reception at Stockport town hall to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 1958 BBC broadcast of the Ballad of John Axon. The broadcast was an iconic production, way ahead of its time, written by folk singer and writer Ewan MacColl and arranged by his partner Peggy Seeger. John…
