Search results for: “2010”

  • Blue Class 20s bring back ‘Skeggy’ holiday memories

    Blue Class 20s bring back ‘Skeggy’ holiday memories

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    Happy memories of Class 20s on summer-dated holiday trains to Skegness were rekindled on May 27 when Pathfinder Tours took a pair of blue EE Type 1s back to the Lincolnshire coast.  Harry Needle Railroad Co Nos. 20096 and 20107, usually hired to GB Railfreight for London Underground ‘S’ stock movements, took charge of the…

  • Caledonian Sleeper’s Mk5 stock: an overnight sensation?

    Caledonian Sleeper’s Mk5 stock: an overnight sensation?

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    Caledonian Sleeper’s new Mk5 stock has rarely been out of the headlines since it was introduced. Ben Jones takes a ride on this new generation of Spanish-built overnight stock to see if it delivers on its promises of a quality hotel experience. Having been in decline for decades, killed off by indifference, variable quality, high…

  • From the archive: New Yankee jewel in the Exmoor crown!

    From the archive: New Yankee jewel in the Exmoor crown!

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    It is 82 years since the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway closed, and 38 years since a revivalist association was formed. One of its core mission statements was to restore the legendary line exactly as it was – and thanks to the culmination of a £650,000 new build locomotive project, now has a complete ‘original’ train.…

  • Straighter and faster for Midland Main Line at Market Harborough

    Straighter and faster for Midland Main Line at Market Harborough

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    Market Harborough station reopened to passengers on June 3 after a six-day blockade to connect the newly realigned station to the Midland Main Line (MML).  Originally planned as part of the MML electrification programme, the elimination of tightly curved platforms in the Leicestershire town allows higher line speeds and increases safety for passengers using the…

  • A Lincolnshire Phoenix

    A Lincolnshire Phoenix

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    It seems inconceivable that a steam-worked narrow gauge railway would be built in the 1960s to fulfil a real passenger transport need.

  • Freight Focus: Fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’

    Freight Focus: Fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’

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    David Ratcliffe reviews the fragrant world of the ‘Binliner’ workings.

  • Future proofing the National Collection

    Future proofing the National Collection

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    How does the National Railway Museum view its diesel and electric vehicles? Paul Bickerdyke finds out.

  • Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway steaming back to strength

    Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway steaming back to strength

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    Gareth Evans finds that the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway is bouncing back & planning its next 50 years.

  • Gertrude leaves Wales to join Leighton Buzzard fleet

    Gertrude leaves Wales to join Leighton Buzzard fleet

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    The Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T Gertrude was relocated to Leighton Buzzard Railway in late-February.

  • 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.


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