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Tag: Robin Jones

Foster, Rastrick & Company’s Agenoria, sister to the Stourbridge Lion, was a ‘star’ early locomotives exhibit in the Great Hall of the National Railway at York. It is the oldest complete locomotive in the museum. ROBIN JONES

The Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside

2nd March 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam

The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.

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Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive

Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive

18th January 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam

It is not often the name of a railway locomotive becomes adopted as an everyday saying in the English language, but many believe that happened in the case of the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive. Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones has the story.

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Severn Valley becomes Welsh Valleys!

10th April 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

The three-day spring steam gala in brought in the crowds, reports Robin Jones and Gareth Evans.

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Coming up in Issue 253 of HR: Take the last Underground steam below central London

10th April 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

THE timetable for District 150 – the last chance to travel on a steam train on London Underground beneath the heart of the capital –

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Vintage Trains plans to run 30 day tours in 2019

9th April 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News, Railtours, Steam

By Cedric Johns VINTAGE Trains has announced its first season of tours as a Train Operating Company. The publication of the 2019 itinerary coincided with

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Don’t ruin wonderful Midsomer Norton station

9th April 2019 Sam Hewitt News

I had to look twice at the date of the latest issue of Heritage Railway (No. 250 – congratulations), as I thought the article on

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Brighton Belle on course for main line

13th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Features, Network, Steam

Gordon Rushton, 5BEL trustee, tells the story of the project to re-create the famous Brighton Belle luxury dining train, from its inception to how it

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Searching for lost NER network tile maps

11th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Network, News, Steam

I have been conducting research regarding lost NER network tile maps, which are basically of three types, and am trying to ascertain whether readers of

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