Robin Jones
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NYMR to donate to Ukraine crisis appeal
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The NYMR has decided to cancel its autumn Railway in Wartime weekend – and is donating weekend ticket sales to the Red Cross.
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Moorsline fires up for new season
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Everything is on track for an action-packed season at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
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All aboard the ‘Queen Mary’ in 2022
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The ‘Queen Mary’ – a Nocton shooting coach – is being restored.
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The Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside
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The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.
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HRA 2022 Awards: Heritage rail’s big night out!
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Railway historian and TV presenter Tim Dunn will be at the helm of The HRA 2022 Annual Awards Evening.
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Vote to rename ‘purple loco’ for Queen’s jubilee
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The Severn Valley Railway is asking the public to vote for a new name for its purple-liveried steam locomotive in honour of The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
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Tender appeal just £5k off target
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A £25,000 appeal by the Swanage Railway Trust to help fund the restoration of the tender belonging to a unique Victorian T3 class steam locomotive is just £5000 short of its total.
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Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive
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It is not often the name of a railway locomotive becomes adopted as an everyday saying in the English language, but many believe that happened in the case of the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive. Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones has the story.
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Raising the roof at Bridgnorth
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Fifty-one years after it launched its first public services, the Severn Valley Railway has been meticulously planning a civil engineering operation that is essential to keep one of the world’s leading heritage lines at the forefront of steam locomotive maintenance and operation for the next half century. John Titlow reports on the planned operation to…
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End of the line for ‘Number Nine’
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LNER A4 Pacific No. 60009 Union of South Africa was set to appear in the East Lancashire Railway’s 2021 Autumn Steam Gala but fate stepped in. The 4-6-2 was withdrawn from traffic less than a week before. Cedric Johns and Robin Jones look back at its illustrious history.
