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  • Your Gallery | LNER A1 Pacific No. 60163

    Your Gallery | LNER A1 Pacific No. 60163

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    “After being held for a London-bound Virgin Pendolino service, the new build Peppercorn Pacific, 60163 Tornado departed Carnforth loop en-route to Crewe.”

  • Confessions of a Railway Journalist

    Confessions of a Railway Journalist

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    After years in the finance industry, and in a complete change of career direction, Brian Sharpe became assistant editor of Heritage Railway in 2002.

  • Your Gallery | 70000 Brittania at Widney Manor

    Your Gallery | 70000 Brittania at Widney Manor

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    Neil Dyson has sent in this great photo of 70000 Brittania.

  • Search for Sir Vincent Raven relatives for North Eastern Railway celebrations

    Search for Sir Vincent Raven relatives for North Eastern Railway celebrations

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    Sir Vincent Raven was an English railway engineer and chief mechanical engineer of NER from 1910 to 1922.

  • Your Gallery | NNR Spring Gala

    Your Gallery | NNR Spring Gala

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    John Hunting sent in this superb picture taken from the NNR Spring Gala!

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  • Restoration of former Barry Prairie continuing at Barry

    Restoration of former Barry Prairie continuing at Barry

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    The project originally began at Llangollen, but the loco moved with Mr Pearce when he relocated to South Wales.

  • Adams ‘Radial’ delights at Bluebell branch weekend

    Adams ‘Radial’ delights at Bluebell branch weekend

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    IT may have been largely on static display only, but the Bluebell Railway’s newly repainted Adams ‘Radial’ 4-4-2T No. 30583 still managed to steal the show at the railway’s Branch Line Weekend on March 15-17. The former Lyme Regis branch loco has been restored back to its BR lined black guise by the team from…

  • First steam over Cawledge Viaduct in preservation era

    First steam over Cawledge Viaduct in preservation era

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    HISTORY was made at the Aln Valley Railway on March 15 when the first steam-hauled train of the preservation era worked across Cawledge Viaduct on the former Alnwick to Alnmouth branch. Hudswell, Clarke 0-6-0T Richboro (1243/1917) was given the honour of being the first locomotive to travel over the full length of the restored railway…

  • Final push for Llangollen Railway’s £10,000 appeal to fill the Corwen ‘gap’

    Final push for Llangollen Railway’s £10,000 appeal to fill the Corwen ‘gap’

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    THE Llangollen Railway’s appeal to raise £10,000 to help fund the infilling of the ‘Gap’ in the embankment at its new Corwen Central station site had reached the £7,800 mark by mid-March.  Support has come from all over the country as promotion of the appeal has spread, helped by a BBC news item on the…


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