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  • Heritage Railway3 min read
    East Lancashire Reaches For The Stars …in Spring Gala With A Twist!
    The organisers of the East Lancashire Railway's March 15-17 spring gala switched tack by reducing the number of locomotives operating, while securing some ‘big hitters’ for its line-up in the form of A4 Pacific No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley, as well as
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    Garden Railway Festival Plan For Llangollen
    ONE of Britain's biggest garden railway festivals will take place in Llangollen on Saturday, May 11. It will be held in the Llangollen Royal International Pavilion, home of the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod), and feature more than 50 ex
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    New Dawn For Stephenson's Newcastle Workshop
    THE multi-million-pound conversion into a business centre of the Pattern Shop, a workshop behind Newcastle Central station where Robert Stephenson built steam locomotives for use both at home and all around the world, has been completed. The Grade II
    Heritage Railway3 min read
    KESR Faces A Sad Farewell To Much-loved Peckett Marcia
    EXCLUSIVE A RECENTLY restored steam locomotive that is a long-time favourite of volunteers, staff and visitors at the Kent & East Sussex Railway is to be sold at auction following the death of its owner. Peckett 0-4-0T No. 1631 of 1923 Marcia was don
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    New Fairground Museum To Boost Statfold Success
    THE Statfold Barn Railway's Spectacle of Steam event on March 16/17 attracted nearly 2000 visitors. There were full trains throughout the two days, with 13 locomotives in steam on the ‘main line’, plus Burton & Ashby Light Railways tram No. 14, Statf
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    Not Only An A2, But Also A ‘Bubblecar’
    ON March 18, the same day Blue Peter arrived by road at Kidderminster from Crewe, there was another unusual arrival on the Severn Valley Railway. Travelling by rail, DMU ‘bubblecar’ No. 55022 Flora, owned by Locomotive Services Limited, arrived under
    Heritage Railway3 min read
    Coastal getaways for London Transport 4TC
    IT has been a regular at Swanage diesel galas and is set to be so again – but now London Transport's 4TC unit is also bound for the North Norfolk Railway's June 7-9 Rails and Ales weekend, a mixed traction gala with two visiting diesels set to star t
    Heritage Railway3 min read
    Blue Peter Pulling Trains Again – After 22 Years!
    LOCOMOTIVE Services Group at Crewe has announced that A2 Pacific No. 60532 Blue Peter has moved under its own power after an eight-year overhaul. Blue Peter was seen on a video posted online on March 14 running up and down a siding alongside the work
    Heritage Railway4 min read
    Beachy Head Move Sees LBSCR Out And LSWR In
    IT WAS a sight hotly anticipated by supporters, volunteers and enthusiasts – on March 5, new-build LBSCR Marsh Atlantic 4-4-2 No. 32424 Beachy Head was moved out of Atlantic House, the shed in which it has resided during the majority of its construct
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    New Steam Arrives For Aln Valley With Thanks To Supporters
    THE Aln Valley Railway has welcomed a new steam locomotive to its collection following the arrival of Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST No. 1366 Renishaw Ironworks No.6 on March 15. Outshopped in 1919 for the Appleby Ironworks at Scunthorpe, after the Second W
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    Dates For The Diary
    ■ 12 Seaton Tramway Sensory Tram ■ 13 Talyllyn Railway Diesel Running Day ■ 13/14 East Lancashire Railway Western Region Weekend ■ 13/14 Llangollen Railway Branch Line Gala ■ 13/14 Statfold Country Park Model Railway Show ■ 19/20 Ffestiniog & Welsh H
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    Betton Grange Will Now Go Direct To Severn Valley
    NEW-BUILD GWR 4-6-0 No. 6880 Betton Grange was being readied for its first steaming and test runs in the yard at Tyseley Locomotive Works as this issue of Heritage Railway went to press. The 81st Grange, the culmination of a 26-year project, had, as
    Heritage Railway3 min read
    Britannia And Sir Nigel Gresley Will Headline Two Sussex Galas
    A PAIR of steam era icons will visit two Sussex heritage lines to headline very different gala events – with one set to be a significant preservation first. As the Kent & East Sussex Railway prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary on June 1/2, the
    Heritage Railway9 min read
    Operational Heritage Lines And Museums
    2ft gauge, ¼ mile. Arundel, West Sussex. Tel: 01798 831370 Open:Weds-Suns. Standard gauge, 11 miles. Sheffield Park, East Sussex TN22 2QL. Tel: 01825 720800. Running: Weds-Suns. 2ft gauge, ½ mile. Bredgar, Sittingbourne, Kent. Tel: 01622 884254. Runn
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    The Main Line Steam Situation Is A Modern Dilemma
    I READ with sadness the footnote by Don Benn to his article in issue 317 where he says that his future Main Line Performance contributions may become, at best, intermittent. “To me, being pushed around by a diesel locomotive or not knowing if the die
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    Welcome To Boughton: Extension Opens To Passengers Following 17 Years Of Hard Graft
    THE Northampton & Lamport Railway's new southern terminus at Boughton was formally opened by Daventry MP Chris Heaton-Harris on March 30. A four-coach train headed by Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST No.3193 of 1944 Norfolk Regiment and top-and tailed by Ha
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    From Main Line To Coastal Branch In Nameplate Sector
    TWO main line locomotive nameplates and another from an engine that operated on a short branch line in the north-east were among the railwayana which went under the hammer at a collectors'auction held by Anderson & Garland of Newcastle on February 29
    Heritage Railway3 min read
    Top Railway Society ‘Back From The Brink’ After Volunteers Plea
    ONE of the country's leading railway societies is back from the brink of being wound up after volunteers stepped forward to fill officers’ vacancies, but the chairman still warns that more may be needed if the organisation, which celebrated its golde
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    Railway Slides Add Splash Of Colour To Auction
    EUROPEAN and Asian steam and heritage modern traction were at the heart of an auction held by railway slides, negatives and prints specialist JustaClickAgo on February 19-25, with the highest realisation of £1950 being achieved by 550 colour slides o
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    Liverpool Class 507 Which Carried Elizabeth II Is Saved
    THE Liverpool-based Class 507 Preservation Society has reached an agreement to take over the ownership of a Merseyrail EMU before the last of its type is withdrawn and scrapped. No. 507001, which carried the late Queen Elizabeth II from Moorfields st
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    Class 20 for Branch Line Society's'Millbrook Meander’
    THE Branch Line Society plans to run a railtour on Sunday, May 26 under the title of‘The Millbrook Meander’, which will now feature a Class 20 alongside the original traction. Starting from Eastleigh behind Class 50 No. 50008 Thunderer, the tour will
    Heritage Railway4 min read
    Heroes Of Heritage: The Next Generation!
    THE efforts of two youngsters whose widely-praised achievements in raising £17,000 to restore a Nene Valley Railway signalbox gutted in an arson attack have been rewarded with a special train to mark its reopening nearly a year to the day. As reporte
    Heritage Railway6 min read
    Jonathan's The Pride Of The County Down!
    At the age of 24, Jonathan King has a very busy life. From Monday to Friday he's completing the fourth year of a law degree at Trinity College, Dublin, travelling home to his parents’ house in Dundrum, County Down, by train to Belfast, and on by road
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    Talyllyn Railway Recollections (Part 3)
    As the railway rapidly approaches its 75th anniversary, now perhaps is an ideal time to expand this ‘Nostalgia’ series of books which covers much of the more recent preservation era. Both authors have been volunteers at the railway for more than 40 y
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    Take The Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways To The Monopoly Board!
    ITS 40-mile route already twisting around the stunning landscapes of Snowdonia, the Ffestiniog &Welsh Highland Railways has again been extended – this time on to the Monopoly board game. A new official Monopoly: Eryri Edition has hit the shops, featu
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    Remembering Nigel Gresley's Postwar Record
    A SPECIAL train is to be run by LNER A4 Pacific No. 60007 Sir Nigel Gresley to mark the 65th anniversary of its postwar speed record. On May 23, 1959, No. 60007 reached 112mph while descending Stoke Bank on the East Coast Main Line with a full train
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    It's A Golden Auction For Jubilee Nameplates
    THE Jubilee nameplate bandwagon, for so long a central part of the railwayana auction scene, continued rolling on in Talisman's live saleroom sale at Newark on March 23, thanks to Newfoundland from No. 45573 selling for the day's leading realisation
    Heritage Railway2 min read
    Steam on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway 2023
    (DVD/Blu-Ray, Steam Valley Productions, 1 hour 8 minutes, DVD £15, available exclusively from the railway at www.gwsr.com; Blue-Ray £20 from www.steamvalleyproductions.com. Both plus p&p). Steam Valley Productions has impressed with its annual video
    Heritage Railway1 min read
    New'halt’ Opens For Business On The Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
    THE Cotswold Halt is the newest stop on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway. It is also the name of the new café at Toddington station, which has replaced the Flag & Whistle tea room. A rethink of the catering at Toddington station followed the
    Heritage Railway3 min read
    Severn Valley Mogul Goes Gold Leaf!
    THE current repaint of Stanier mogul No. 13268 into full lined LMS livery on the Severn Valley Railway has been completed with gold leaf. Gold leaf and steam locomotives might at first glance seem unlikely bedfellows; apparently, its use is more comm

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