One of the most exciting new-build steam locomotive projects is that to recreate a BR ‘Clan’. Robert Ife, commercial director of the Standard Steam Locomotive
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Standard fayre at Poynton
MOST of the Big Four’s flagship express locomotives were handsome beasts.
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Blue ‘King’ confirmed for Cotswold Festival of Steam
THE Great Western Society’s Collett 4-6-0 King Edward II will return to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway later this spring to take part in the line’s
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Steam at St Margarets in the Fifties
In issue 249, I enjoyed Gavin Morrison’s retro look at Holbeck shed’s last years of service in the 1960s. My memories of this atmospheric Midland
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GCR to become ‘Cromwell’s’ new custodian?
THE 14-year relationship between ‘Britannia’ No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell and the 5305 Locomotive Association (5305LA) has come to an end. The BR Pacific’s owner, the
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Layouts we love: ‘O’, what an amazing sight!
If you want to watch something truly incredible, make yourself comfortable, open the video link at the end of this feature.
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Throwback to a 1967 Cumbrian camping coach holiday
Trevor Gregg’s 1967 holiday included visits to Lostock Hall, Wigan Springs Branch, Crewe South and Birkenhead sheds.
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Two weeks on and the tills ring at Stoneleigh
Just two weeks after GW Railwayana achieved a world record £64,500 for a nameplate from LNER No. 60103 Flying Scotsman, as reported in last month’s
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