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Tag: Heritage Lottery Fund

Ipswich museum completes Cambridge horse tram restoration

5th January 2020 Sam Hewitt News, Trams

A FORMER Cambridge Street Tramways 4ft-gauge horse tram, which survived in Ely as a workshop for decades, has been returned to its former glory after

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Wensleydale Railway

Heritage profile: The Wensleydale Railway

13th July 2019 Sam Hewitt Features, Steam

Running through some of the best scenery North Yorkshire offers, the Wensleydale Railway is a relative newcomer to the heritage and tourist railway sector. Graeme

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Bahamas and Rocket take centre stage at open weekend

Bahamas and Rocket take centre stage at open weekend

25th June 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

STANIER ‘Jubilee’ No. 45596 Bahamas will be returning to the Midlands this month as the star exhibit at the Tyseley Locomotive Works/Vintage Trains open weekend on

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5428 Eric Treacy departs Levisham on the 16.00pm Pickering to Grosmont

Major lottery award for North Yorkshire Moors

22nd June 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

THE North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s (NYMR) £9.7million Yorkshire’s Magnificent Journey (YMJ) project has been successful in its bid for Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) support. The

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Search for contractor delays J21 locomotive overhaul start

5th April 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

The Locomotive Conservation and Learning Trust continues to search for a contractor to carry out the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed overhaul of NER J21 0-6-0 No.

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Aveling Sirapite makes Mid-Suffolk foursome

13th March 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

The Long Shop Museum at Leiston will be without its popular Aveling & Porter 4wWTG Sirapite this summer.

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Mansfield marks 200 years of England’s longest-running commercial line

4th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News, Steam

An EXHIBITION celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Mansfield & Pinxton Railway – claimed to be England’s oldest continuously running commercial railway – is being

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Historic Springwell incline brakeman’s cabin restored

27th February 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

THE restoration of the self-acting incline brakeman’s cabin at the top of the Bowes Railway’s Springwell incline, supported by Heritage Lottery funding, has been completed.

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Lottery grant for GWR 2-8-0 heavy freight No. 2874

18th February 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £57,400 towards the restoration.

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J21 restoration project makes January start for 2022 target

25th January 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

NEARLY two years after announcing that it had secured Heritage Lottery Fund support to restore the now unique J21 0-6-0 No. 65033, its owners are

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