Steam Days

  • Nation celebrates 100 years of Flying Scotsman, world’s most famous steam locomotive

    Nation celebrates 100 years of Flying Scotsman, world’s most famous steam locomotive

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    Friday, February 24 marked 100 years since Flying Scotsman set off on its first journey from the sheds at Doncaster Works.

  • March Issue

    March Issue

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    Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts. With Rex Kennedy as editor, he has 80 years of railway memories to recollect, alongside the stories and tales retold by many of the contributors.

  • February Issue

    February Issue

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    Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts.

  • January issue

    January issue

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    Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts.

  • National Railway Museum’s Station Hall to close temporarily for £10.5m refurbishment 

    National Railway Museum’s Station Hall to close temporarily for £10.5m refurbishment 

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    The National Railway Museum’s historic Station Hall will close temporarily in the New Year to enable urgent structural repairs to take place as part of the museum’s ambitious redevelopment plans.

  • Steam Days is celebrating its 400th issue!

    Steam Days is celebrating its 400th issue!

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    Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best. Steam Days is a monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts. This issue, however, is a special one – the 400th issue!

  • November Issue

    November Issue

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    Steam nostalgia and railway history at its best, Steam Days is the monthly magazine dedicated to all steam railway enthusiasts.

  • Flying Scotsman centenary celebrations launched at London King’s Cross on station’s 170th birthday

    Flying Scotsman centenary celebrations launched at London King’s Cross on station’s 170th birthday

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    Flying Scotsman – the world’s most famous steam locomotive – made its first appearance in a year-long national programme of events to mark its centenary today at London King’s Cross Station.

  • Heritage railway founders return to lay flowers at volunteer memorial

    Heritage railway founders return to lay flowers at volunteer memorial

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    Two men who started the battle to rebuild a heritage railway line as students have returned 50 years later to lay flowers at a memorial to generations of railway volunteers.

  • Daughter of man who saved Flying Scotsman from the scrapheap to visit UK

    Daughter of man who saved Flying Scotsman from the scrapheap to visit UK

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    The daughter of the man who saved the record-breaking Flying Scotsman from being cut up for scrap is to make a pilgrimage to the UK from her home in Portugal, to ride behind the world’s most famous steam locomotive.

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