VINTAGE Trains started work as an independent Train Operating Company (TOC) in October. The move comes after the company received its licence from the Office
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Category: Steam
Tinkerbell celebrates its 50th at Moors Valley
THE Moors Valley Railway’s (MVR) Tinkerbell 50 event on September 22-23 featured 19 examples, including the original Tinkerbell. All five of the original 1978 production
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Locos find new homes after Brookside site in Cheshire closes
Two of the three Roger Greatrex-built, American-style diesel locos have been relocated.
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Nine steam at Leighton Buzzard gala
THREE guest locos featured in the Leighton Buzzard Railway’s (LBR) September 15-16 gala: Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell, Clarke 0-4-0ST Lautoka Mill No. 19, Patrick Keef’s Bagnall
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Nancy in the spotlight at Alan Keef Open Day
FORMER Eastwell Iron Ore Quarries 3ft-gauge Avonside 1547/1908 0-6-0T Nancy was the centrepiece project displayed at the annual Alan Keef Ltd’s Open Day on September
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Grant, Ritchie return makes four in steam at Ribble gala
THE return of home-based Grant, Ritchie 0-4-0ST No. 21 (272/1894) from summer hire at the Telford Steam Railway enabled the Ribble Steam Railway (RSR) to turn
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Middleton celebrates its colliery heritage
TWO long-lost locomotives that once worked in the Yorkshire coalfields were re-created during the Middleton Railway’s Last Coals to Leeds gala over the weekend of
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‘Duchess’ makes Swanage Railway gala debut
No. 6233 Duchess of Sutherland was in deepest Dorset making its preservation debut on Swanage Railway metals – just a week prior to the East
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Great Western pairing in East Lancashire
DUCHESS of Sutherland’s seasonal tour of heritage lines concluded with a star turn at the East Lancashire Railway’s October 19-21 gala. The Class 7 Pacific
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2018 Autumn steam gala round-up: Mid-Hants goes BR black for season-ending spectacular…
THE quote often attributed to Henry Ford about “a car painted any colour so long as it’s black” had a certain resonance on the final
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