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Tag: Royal Scot

Happy campers as Royal Scot returns to Skegness – in steam!

10th December 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

LMS 4-6-0 No. 46100 Royal Scot, which owes its survival in 1962 to holiday camp magnate Sir Billy Butlin, is returning to the East Coast resort

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Steam at St Margarets in the Fifties

11th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Letters, Network, News, Steam

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

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Layouts we love: ‘O’, what an amazing sight!

15th February 2019 Sam Hewitt Features, Modelling

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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Feature | Re-creating Ivatt’s LMS diesel pioneer

13th February 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Features

No. 10000 was withdrawn in 1963 and 10001 in 1966, and both were sent for scrapping in 1968.

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Two weeks on and the tills ring at Stoneleigh

13th February 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

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

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What’s in the Shops – Hornby’s new ‘Electric Scot’

19th December 2018 Sam Hewitt Modelling, News

Hornby’s ‘OO’ gauge Class 87 model is now available in the shops, including an original BR blue version of the 1970 and early 1980s, writes Nigel Burkin.

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