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Your Gallery | 60103 Flying Scotsman
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Keith Halse has sent in some impressive photography of No. 60103 Flying Scotsman passing Corfe Castle on a visit to Swanage Railway.
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SRPS Railtours: Forth Bridge and Borders Steam Specials
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SRPS Railtours is organising steam specials on each Sunday in August 2019.
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From the archive: The Cold North Wind
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The autumn of 1967 saw the end of steam on the Eastern Region and at the great railway centre of Crewe.
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Pwllheli horse tram surviving the elements
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THE sole-surviving 3ft-gauge horse tram from Soloman Andrews’ Pwllheli & Llanbedrog Tramway appears to be standing up well to the elements at the Plas Glan y Weddw arts centre. The 1897-built enclosed Brush car has been on outdoor display at the site it once served since 2016, following an agreement between Pwllheli Town Council and…
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No. 401: The peak of industrial locomotive development
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No. 401, with surviving sister No. 403, are generally considered to represent the pinnacle of industrial steam locomotive design. They were part of a trio built for the Steel Company of Wales (SCOW) for its Abbey, Margam and Port Talbot works, where they would be evaluated alongside three new six-coupled diesel electric locomotives, which had…
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Ffestiniog Travel: Go east for an Asian Rail Adventure
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INTEREST in rail tours to far-flung places continues to be popular as train travel offers the means to see as much of a country as possible in the timeframe of a holiday. Specialist rail tour operator Ffestiniog Travel is capitalising on this trend by going east and combining exotic destinations, interesting cultures and sightseeing with…
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Your Gallery | 0-4-0 Well Tank ‘Dolgoch’
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Every year, until this year we go to Wales & Norfolk and every year I come away with a selection of photography.
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Corwen opening on target as Llangollen fills embankment ‘Gap’ to complete trackbed
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THE Llangollen Railway is another step closer having trains able to run into its new Corwen Central station following the filling of the ‘Gap’ in the embankment immediately east of the station site. After six solid days’ effort by contractor and volunteers, the northern batter (boundary) of the embankment was completed on May 14. About…
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‘Q6’ becomes ‘T2’ after North Eastern identity is restored
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THE North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) relaunched its Raven ‘Q6’ 0-8-0 No. 63395 on May 1 as North Eastern Railway ‘T2’ No. 2238 – all part of the locomotive’s centenary year commemorations. The transformation has included repainting the loco into the NER livery the locomotive carried when it emerged from Darlington Works in December 1918. The…
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Bahamas and Rocket take centre stage at open weekend
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STANIER ‘Jubilee’ No. 45596 Bahamas will be returning to the Midlands this month as the star exhibit at the Tyseley Locomotive Works/Vintage Trains open weekend on June 22-23. No. 45596 made its public debut at the Tyseley open weekend last September upon completion of its Heritage Lottery-funded overhaul, but since its main line trials and subsequent…
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