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Spooktacular savings on your favourite titles!
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Trick and treat yourself this Halloween with our spookily good subscription offers on a selection of your favourite Railway titles.
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Dinmore and more and more!
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The locomotives owned by Dinmore Manor Locomotive Ltd have earned themselves a reputation for reliability and good performance during their various spells in traffic. Yet their owning group retains a relatively low profile, conducting impressive feats largely ‘under the radar’. Gary Boyd-Hope went to meet them. ON June 7 last year Collett ‘Manor’ No. 7820…
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Centenarian cameraman: Ron Buckley – Britain’s Oldest Railway Photographer: Part Two
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Chris Milner concludes his interview with 100-year-old photographer Ron Buckley, who returned from wartime military service to a railway preparing for Nationalisation. AFTER leaving England in 1940 and serving with the Worcestershire Regiment, Ron returned home after demobilisation in 1945 after four-and-a-half years away – and to a very different railway. The ‘Big Four’ had…
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Delivering a bigger, better railway for Scotland
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With new and refurbished trains on the way, a rolling programme of electrification, and a devolved Government committed to further expansion, Scotland is showing other regions of the UK how to deliver a better railway. Ben Jones met ScotRail Alliance MD Alex Hynes to find out what is in store for 2018 and beyond. New…
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General Manager Full Time Position – Weardale Railway
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We are looking for a General Manager who has commercial acumen, with a can-do attitude, who will take responsibility for getting jobs done.
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The Joy of Railways: Remembering the golden age of trainspotting
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Journey back to the 1950s and ’60s with this nostalgic look at Britain’s railways in their glory days. Beautifully illustrated throughout with a unique collection of photographs, train spotting notebooks and railway ephemera.
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The Worcester Locomotive Society
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Rex Kennedy, a former member of the Worcester Locomotive Society, recalls long days and amusing stories from when the WLS ran regular coach trips.
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The COVID Conundrum
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Editor Mark Nicholls ponders the serious issues surrounding coronavirus and the UK’s railways, in particular what can be done to bring passengers back.
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Water troughs: Simple, revolutionary invention for long-distance rail travel
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It was a relatively simple invention yet it revolutionised long-distance train travel for more than a century.
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Restoring Falling Sands
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The Severn Valley Railway has undertaken a vast job in making repairs to the Falling Sands Viaduct, as Editor Mark Nicholls explains.
