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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Whitwell & Reepham ‘Thursday Gang’ nears end of Agecroft No. 3 restoration
ROBERT Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-4-0ST Agecroft No. 3 (7681/1951) is in the final stages of restoration at Whitwell & Reepham Station in Norfolk. The locomotive is
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Great steam Engineers of the nineteenth century: Part 5 – the 1860s
Steam locomotives grew larger, more powerful and faster during the 1860s. Brian Sharpe outlines how the jobs of the locomotive superintendents of the major railway
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