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  • Your Gallery | 45596 Bahamas at Appleby

    Your Gallery | 45596 Bahamas at Appleby

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    45596 Bahamas steaming south at Appleby station.

  • Your Gallery | 60009 Union of South Africa

    Your Gallery | 60009 Union of South Africa

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    A4 Pacific No.60009 Union of South Africa, passes through Swindon.

  • Chinnor’s Class 31 takes Railway Technical Centre livery ahead of diesel gala

    Chinnor’s Class 31 takes Railway Technical Centre livery ahead of diesel gala

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    The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway’s Class 31 D5581 (31163, 97205) has been repainted.

  • Long-delayed ‘Oz Flying Scotsman’ restoration: still no completion date

    Long-delayed ‘Oz Flying Scotsman’ restoration: still no completion date

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    The £1¼ million overhaul that initially expected to be completed in 2011.

  • Six GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon

    Six GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon

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    A RAKE of six BR 16T ‘Windcutter’ mineral wagons, borrowed from the Great Central Railway on a 10-year loan, will be first run in public by custodian the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway at its May 26-27 ‘Coal Train Weekend.’ The wagons have moved to Blaenavon on an initial 10-year loan (HR 249), with a subsequent…

  • Catch scheduled Polish steam while you still can

    Catch scheduled Polish steam while you still can

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    THIS year is likely to be the last featuring a full scheduled steam service in Poland. The services from Wolsztyn to Poznan and Leszno are said to be the last ‘real’ timetabled steam services in the world but government financial cutbacks mean that in 2020 a limited scheduled service is the most likely option. Meanwhile,…

  • Government’s £94K grant boosts early rail heritage

    Government’s £94K grant boosts early rail heritage

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    EARLY railways are to take a new centre stage at Tyneside’s Stephenson Railway Museum thanks to a £94,500 Government grant. The windfall from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Wolfson Museums and Galleries Improvement Fund will help finance the North Shields museum’s Pioneers from the Dawn of Railways project. The funding will see…

  • Historic Springwell incline brakeman’s cabin restored

    Historic Springwell incline brakeman’s cabin restored

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    THE restoration of the self-acting incline brakeman’s cabin at the top of the Bowes Railway’s Springwell incline, supported by Heritage Lottery funding, has been completed. It was the first incline on the 1826 Bowes system running between Springwell Yard and the bank foot at Wardley. It was a self acting (gravity) incline and depended on…

  • Pre-booking advised for March 3 big Wightwick Hall launch at Quainton Road

    Pre-booking advised for March 3 big Wightwick Hall launch at Quainton Road

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    VISITORS who want to welcome WR 4-6-0 No. 6989 Wightwick Hall back into traffic after four decades are being urged to book their tickets in advance, as the event is selling out fast. As highlighted last month, the locomotive – the 150th ex-Barry scrapyard engine to be restored to running order – made its first…

  • Sir Berkeley to return to original contractor’s livery

    Sir Berkeley to return to original contractor’s livery

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    THE Middleton Railway is working with the Vintage Carriages Trust to restore 1890-built Manning Wardle contractor’s 0-6-0ST Sir Berkeley to its original Logan & Hemingway livery. The locomotive, works number No. 1210, which was used in the construction of the Great Central Railway’s London Extension and worked on the building of Nottingham Victoria station, was…

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