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Going underground
We visit a disused Great Central Railway tunnel that has been reborn as the world’s longest indoor vehicle test track.
Postwar Talyllyn in colour
Rare colour photos have emerged, taken in 1949, of the original Talyllyn Railway, two years before it was reborn as the world’s first volunteer-run heritage railway.
Feeding Drax
As the North Yorkshire power station celebrates its 50th anniversary, we take a cab ride on the biomass circuit from Drax to Immingham.
‘Super D’ stripe mystery
Just how and why was a ‘Super D’ seen at Derby in September 1964 with a newly-applied ‘not south of Crewe’ cab stripe, even though it had been withdrawn two years before the cab stripe directive was issued, banning certain locos from running under the newly-installed overhead electrification?
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