Britannia
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Lazarus Locomotives: A Clan for all season
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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 Company, brings readers up to speed with progress, and the next stages. POSSIBLY not all readers will have heard of The ‘Clan’ Project, one of the many new-build steam projects…
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Standard fayre at Poynton
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MOST of the Big Four’s flagship express locomotives were handsome beasts.
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Blue ‘King’ confirmed for Cotswold Festival of Steam
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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 Cotswold Festival of Steam on May 25-27. It will be the second visit by Didcot-based No. 6023 to the ‘Gloucs-Warks’ in as many years, having starred at the same event last…
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Steam at St Margarets in the Fifties
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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 Railway ‘Cathedral of Steam’ are from a decade or so earlier when steam ruled the rails and ex-Midland and LMS locomotives dominated. In my school days when I had rare…
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GCR to become ‘Cromwell’s’ new custodian?
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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 National Railway Museum, has decreed the custodial agreement between the two organisations would not be extended. Instead responsibility for the locomotive could be passed directly to the Great Central Railway…
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Layouts we love: ‘O’, what an amazing sight!
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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
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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
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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 issue, the tills were also ringing at Great Central’s December 1 sale at Stoneleigh Park, with the top five realisations achieving a combined £142,200 before the addition of buyer’s premium.…
