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  • From the archive: School or ‘Silver Jubilee’? A 1982 look back at a forerunner of the High Speed Train

    From the archive: School or ‘Silver Jubilee’? A 1982 look back at a forerunner of the High Speed Train

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    In the September 1982 issue of The Railway Magazine, D. L. A. Smith recalled playing truant in September 1935 to see the LNER’s new “Silver Jubilee” train on its Press Run. His account records the appearance of Silver Link, the passing of the train at Oakleigh Park and the later history of the “Silver Jubilee”.…

  • Three new railway titles available on Mortons Books

    Three new railway titles available on Mortons Books

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    Three new railway titles are now available to buy on the Mortons Books website – Railwaymen of the Welsh Valleys 1914-1967 Vol 2; More Memories of a Didcot Apprentice; and Stratford Depot Locomotives in the Eighties and Nineties

  • Golden Age of Rail and Theatre evoked in new book

    Golden Age of Rail and Theatre evoked in new book

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    Nostalgic memories from the 1950s and 1960s golden age of steam and music hall entertainment are recalled in By Rail to the Music Halls…


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