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  • Standard fayre at Poynton

    Standard fayre at Poynton

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    MOST of the Big Four’s flagship express locomotives were handsome beasts.

  • Headboard memories for trainspotters of a certain age

    Headboard memories for trainspotters of a certain age

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    Two headboards will bring back memories for we trainspotters.

  • Bahamas makes a triumphant return

    Bahamas makes a triumphant return

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    February 9 and 16 were landmark days for the Bahamas Locomotive Society.

  • Last days of the East Kent Railway

    Last days of the East Kent Railway

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    I was at boarding school at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate in 1951. As a railway enthusiast I was delighted to be in a house whose housemaster had a full bound set of The Railway Magazine in his study, which he lent me one by one. Somehow, I learned that the East Kent Railway was going…

  • Our steam odyssey in 1967

    Our steam odyssey in 1967

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    I was interested to read the article by Trevor Gregg about his 1967 camping coach holiday, in issue 251. A friend and I purchased a week’s railrover ticket for the princely sum of £18 and set off from Kent in May 1967, to visit as many of the remaining steam locomotive depots as we could…

  • Don’t ruin wonderful Midsomer Norton station

    Don’t ruin wonderful Midsomer Norton station

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    I had to look twice at the date of the latest issue of Heritage Railway (No. 250 – congratulations), as I thought the article on page 35, about Midsomer Norton must have been an April Fool.  As anyone who has been to this station knows, it is a classic small town station, complete with goods…

  • Great steam Engineers of the nineteenth century: Part 5 – the 1860s

    Great steam Engineers of the nineteenth century: Part 5 – the 1860s

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    Steam locomotives grew larger, more powerful and faster during the 1860s. Brian Sharpe outlines how the jobs of the locomotive superintendents of the major railway companies also grew ever larger, in terms of their responsibilities and the huge workforces under their control.  The 1860s was a time of expansion for the GWR. After the Gauge…

  • With full regulator: LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE THEN AND NOW

    With full regulator: LOCOMOTIVE PERFORMANCE THEN AND NOW

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    In his latest column, Don Benn describes the performance of Clan Line on December 20’s ‘Carols in Sherborne Abbey’ trip  – and also February 2’s ‘Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express’ double-header of Mayflower and British India Line, which hauled the train between Carnforth and Carlisle and return to Preston via the Settle and Carlisle route. THIS…

  • Club Sport: Leicester Model Railway Group celebrates 70th anniversary year

    Club Sport: Leicester Model Railway Group celebrates 70th anniversary year

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    The Leicester Model Railway Group was formed at The Martyr’s Church Hall in 1949.

  • Layouts to Love: Where railway modelling dreams begin

    Layouts to Love: Where railway modelling dreams begin

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    RMM visited two recent exhibitions, at Altrincham and Leamington Spa, and was delighted by what was in store at both.


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