The Railway Magazine
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Lakeside’s Barclay steals the show at Foxfield gala
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VISITING Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T No. 14 (1245/1911) certainly stole the show at the Foxfield Railway’s Summer Gala on July 20-21, recalling the heyday of the Scottish coalfields when these big Barclay tanks were a common sight on coal trains. The former Carron Iron Company loco had made the journey to Staffordshire from its home at…
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Preserving Britain’s railway heritage
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As long ago as 1845 Benjamin Disraeli wrote in his novel Sybil: ‘The railways will do as much for mankind as the monasteries did’
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North set to receive ‘£2,300 less per person in transport spending than London’
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Boris Johnson has been urged to keep his promises after a report suggested the North is set to receive more than £2,300 less per person in transport spending than London.
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British railways still Europe’s safest – but SPAD risk rises
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The RSSB annual health and safety report for 2018/19 confirms Britain’s place as the safest of the European Union’s 10 biggest railway networks.
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Stadler Class 755s into service as Greater Anglia ‘745s’ gain approval
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The first of 38 new Class 755 bi-mode multiple units ordered by Greater Anglia entered service on July 29.
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Variety is spice of life at Talyllyn…
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TALYLLYN Railway’s (TR) June 15 Anything Goes gala lived up to its billing with a variety of operations encompassing steam-hauled freight trains, diesel-hauled passenger operations, and a car travelling up the line aboard a wagon! Highlights amid conventional service trains included works diesel Hunslet 0-4-0DM No. 9 Alf hauling a vintage train of three original TR…
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Historic stations: Bath Green Park Some myths dispelled!
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In the June 1980 issue of The Railway Magazine, Mike Arlett recalled the history of The Midland Station at Bath (renamed by BR as Bath Green Park in June 1951). All these years later it is apparent there still remains some confusion as to the date the station opened and the alleged existence of a…
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Retaining heritage skills for the future
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This month’s feature about apprentices at the Severn Valley Railway focuses on Richard Davis, who first joined the railway as a cleaner, but has since moved into the carriage & wagon workshop to hone his engineering skills. AT THE age of 30, Richard Davis is a good few years older than the Severn Valley Railway’s…
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UK railway news round-up
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Welcome to The Railway Hub’s weekly round-up of the latest railway news.
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State of the Art
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Nick Pigott tells the story of the Guild of Railway Artists, from early brush strokes to acknowledged masterpieces and now looking to the future as the group celebrates its 40th anniversary… Railway art is almost as old as steam railways themselves. In the 19th century, Monet, Turner, Frith and Bourne were among the first to…
