MARKING of the 125th anniversary of Manx Electric Railway (MER) services to Laxey during the July 24-28 Manx Heritage Transport Festival included trams running ‘as’
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Tag: Bagnall
Quintet steam at Threlkeld museum’s August gala
THRELKELD Quarry and Mining Museum’s July 27-28 Annual Steam Gala featured four guest steam locomotives. Bagnall 0-4-0ST Kidbrooke (2043/1917) from Yaxham Light Railway and Statfold
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No. 401: The peak of industrial locomotive development
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
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6412 returning as WSR marks four decades of BL steam
COLLETT ‘64XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 6412 will return to the railway it called home for 33 years next month when it takes part in the West Somerset
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Sneak Peek: Keeping the ‘Middy’ memories alive
Craig Amess tells the story of the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, which was finally closed in 1952 after years of struggle and debt
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New locomotive destined for Groudle Glen Railway
A new 2ft-gauge Bagnall ‘Sipat’-design 0-4-0ST locomotive is set for Groudle Glen Railway after its unveiling last month.
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Pioneering WSR Bagnall steams again on Tyneside
A LOCOMOTIVE which worked on the West Somerset Railway in its early years has returned to steam after 11 years. Bagnall New Standard 18 class
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Six GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon
A RAKE of six BR 16T ‘Windcutter’ mineral wagons, borrowed from the Great Central Railway on a 10-year loan, will be first run in public
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Yet another steam fleet addition for the Moors
By Roger Melton AFTER many years of operating with the Lambton, Hetton & Joicey 0-6-2Ts as its smallest steam engines, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
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Pontypool leases 16-tonners from Great Central Railway in 10-year deal
SURPLUS 16-ton mineral wagons from the Great Central Railway’s ‘Windcutter’ fleet have been given a new home at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway (P&BR). Six
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