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Catering and all access coaches progress at SVR
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By Paul Appleton WORK is progressing well on the overhaul of GWR Kitchen Car No. 9615, according to Neil Taylor, head of locomotives and rolling stock engineering at the Severn Valley Railway. This long-term project has around a further two years to go before the vehicle can enter traffic, but as Neil said: “We have…
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J21 restoration project makes January start for 2022 target
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NEARLY two years after announcing that it had secured Heritage Lottery Fund support to restore the now unique J21 0-6-0 No. 65033, its owners are finally beginning the work. Since receiving a £954,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant in March 2016, the Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust has been awaiting formal permission to start the restoration…
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Bahamas and B12 set to draw crowds at Keighley’s March gala
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THE Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s March 8-10 spring steam gala looks set to be a ‘must-attend’ event, with recently-overhauled LMS Jubilee 4-6-0 No. 45596 Bahamas to be joined by LNER B12 4-6-0 No. 8572. Bahamas will be making its first gala appearance on a heritage line in more than 25 years, shortly after its…
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Your Gallery | Mayflower in Preston
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BR built Thompson B1 no 61306 Mayflower seen here at Preston
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Your Gallery | 5199 and 41312 at Ropley
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Jim Carruthers has sent in great pictures of 5199 and 41312 at Ropley.
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West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes
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It was opened in 1965 as a normal, steam-operated 9½in-gauge railway.
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Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers
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THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…
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Locomotive Performance | Then and Now
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Don Benn describes the performance of Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line.
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Great steam engineers of the nineteenth century: PART IIII
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Brian Sharpe outlines how the role of the chief mechanical engineer developed during the 1840s.
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