Swanage Railway
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GBRf has 91 Class 66s after Swedish purchase
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Former Cargonet Class 66 No. T66.403 – already with its GBRf number of 66790 – is hauled from Immingham to Longport EMD past North Stafford Junction on June 3 by No. 66741 Swanage Railway. At Longport the loco will get the necessary modifications and safety equipment to work on Network Rail lines. GB has bought two other…
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Swanage Railway launches £350,000 ‘T3’ restoration appeal
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Dorset’s Swanage Railway has launched a £350,000 appeal to return London & South Western Railway (LSWR) ‘T3’ 4-4-0 No. 563 to full working order. The 563 Locomotive Group, under the umbrella of the Swanage Railway Trust, hopes to raise the money in a suitable time window to allow the 1893-built former National Railway Museum loco to…
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Your Gallery | 60103 Flying Scotsman
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Keith Halse has sent in some impressive photography of No. 60103 Flying Scotsman passing Corfe Castle on a visit to Swanage Railway.
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BLS charity tour to explore Yorkshire freight lines with Colas and WCRC ’37s’
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No fewer than four rarely visited freight installations in Yorkshire will be explored by the Branch Line Society on July 20.
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Your Gallery | BR Standard Class 2-6-4 No.80104
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Chris Allen sent in this photo of 80104 manoeuvring at Swanage Station.
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Battle of Britain Class 4-6-2 No.34070 ‘Manston’
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Manston, seen here hauling a dining tour at Corfe Castle Station on the Swanage Railway.
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‘Caley’ tank ups and downs: It’s a success in Swanage but fails at North Norfolk
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CALEDONIAN Railway 0-4-4T No. 419 suffered mixed fortunes during late-March/early-April, having proved a big hit at the Swanage Railway’s March 29-31 Spring Steam Up, but missing out on much of the North Norfolk Railway’s gala the following weekend. The Swanage event coincided with the visit of ‘A3’ No. 60103 Flying Scotsman, and also featured Great…
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YOUR GALLERY | FLYING SCOTSMAN
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Captured above is a Ex LNER Pacific No. 60103 Flying Scotsman passing Woodyhyde on the Swanage Railway
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Pegler’s daughter to wave off Scotsman at Swanage
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THE daughter of the late Alan Pegler, who in 1963 bought Flying Scotsman for £3000 from BR to save it from the scrapyard, is to wave it off when it hauls its first train at the start of its three-week visit. Penny Vaudoyer will be flying in from her home in Portugal to perform the…
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Caley Blue 419 adds Broadway to English tour
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Caledonian Railway 0-4-4T No. 419 has added the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s Cotswold Festival of Steam to its biggest-ever tour of England. No. 419 will star in the May 25-27 festival alongside another blue guest, GWR 4-6-0 No. 6023 Edward II from Didcot Railway Centre. A third guest will be B1 4-6-0 No. 1260 from the…
