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  • Book of the Week: Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2022

    Book of the Week: Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2022

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    In 2018 the Rail Camera Club organised the ‘Rail Cameraman’ exhibition at Locomotion, Shildon, showcasing the work of the club’s members.

  • Book of the Week: Railways & Recollections: The Midland Mainland in London 1974-80

    Book of the Week: Railways & Recollections: The Midland Mainland in London 1974-80

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    The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July).

  • Book of the Week: The Midland Mainline in London 1974-80

    Book of the Week: The Midland Mainline in London 1974-80

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    The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July). From then on, improvements and widenings were undertaken through to 1905.

  • Book of the Week: Railway Magazine – Archive Series 1930’s

    Book of the Week: Railway Magazine – Archive Series 1930’s

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    The last great age of steam in Britain is revisited in this new collection of superb photographs from the extensive archive of the Railway Magazine.

  • Book of the Week: Settle & Carlise Revival

    Book of the Week: Settle & Carlise Revival

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    The Settle & Carlisle railway runs across the roof of England, reaching the highest point on any mainline railway in the country, and carries both passenger services and freight traffic.

  • Book of the Week: Model Railways Explained Beyond the Beginning

    Book of the Week: Model Railways Explained Beyond the Beginning

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    My hobby has been model railways for many years since I was given a Tri-ang Princess Elizabeth train set for Christmas as an eight-year-old schoolboy.

  • Book of the Week: 50 Years of Railways Around Bristol

    Book of the Week: 50 Years of Railways Around Bristol

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    Telling the story of Bristol area railways over the last 50 years, this publication is lavishly illustrated, including many photos taken by rail employees that give a unique insight to railways around Bristol and the surrounding area. Included are well-known locations but also railway byways and those serving industrial Avonmouth, now long lost. Also with…

  • Book of the Week: Model Railways Explained

    Book of the Week: Model Railways Explained

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    Author Brian Lamber writes: “My hobby has been model railways for many years since I was given a Tri-ang Princess Elizabeth train set for Christmas as an eight-year-old schoolboy.

  • Book of the Week: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire Steam Railway Journey

    Book of the Week: Gloucestershire, Warwickshire Steam Railway Journey

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    The history and the remarkable rebuilding of the former section of the Great Western Railway from Broadway to Cheltenham Racecourse by the volunteer-led Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway has been well documented.

  • Book of the Week: Lament for a Branch Line

    Book of the Week: Lament for a Branch Line

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    As a born and bred Prestonian, young David took the opportunity to go train spotting at Preston station, within sight and sound of the much-lamented Southport branch line.

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