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Tag: British Rail

A Cumbrian Coast ‘Jubilee’

6th December 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News, Railtours, Steam

STANIER ‘Jubilee’ 4-6-0 No. 45690 Leander winds its way southbound along the Lakeland coast at St Bees with the return leg of the Railway Touring Company’s

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Ex-LNER 'A4' No. 60009 Union of South Africa

‘King’, ‘A4’ and debutant ‘9F’ steal show at Moors line gala spectacular

3rd December 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

THE North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) pulled off what might be regarded as one of the biggest steam galas of the 2000s on September 27-29,

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Rail Riders enthusiasts’ club set for relaunch

6th November 2019 Sam Hewitt News

Rail Riders, the club for rail travellers and enthusiasts founded and operated by British Rail between 1981 and 1991, is being relaunched in February. Almost

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Former UK electrics have mixed fortunes in Bulgaria

5th November 2019 Sam Hewitt Electric, News, World

BULGARIA remains the main user of ex-BR built electric locomotives, but the competitive nature of freight operations has led to mixed fortunes for the Class

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North Tyneside 03 prepared for Gateshead shunter reunion

2nd November 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, News, Steam

CLASS 03 No. D2078 has been repainted in BR blue and now carries its TOPS number, 03078.  It is based on the North Tyneside Steam Railway

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Electric Railway Museum stock stored at Colne Valley

31st October 2019 Sam Hewitt Electric, News

A NUMBER of historic items have been accommodated at the Colne Valley Railway (CVR), Essex, following closure of the Electric Railway Museum at Coventry in

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Springs Branch goes live again

30th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News

NEW overhead line equipment has been switched on at the reactivated Springs Branch depot in Wigan.  The former BR diesel depot and EWS disposal site

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Railway Accidents: Lamentable Failures

8th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Features, Network

Thirty-one people lost their lives on Tuesday, October 5, 1999, when a Thames Trains Class 165 ‘Turbo’ collided with a First Great Western InterCity125 at

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Three Type 3s – to the sea!

1st October 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Freight, News, Railtours

THREE Class 37s at the head of a heavy freight train used to be a regular sight in South Wales and around Glasgow in BR

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Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled

14th September 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Features, Network, Steam

Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.

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