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  • Bachmann Narrow Gauge expands 009-scale range

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    At the launch of its 2019 Bachmann Branchline and Graham Farish catalogues in London on January 14 (see page 12) Bachmann Europe Plc announced a growing input into its 009-scale range with new tooling for a Baguley-Drewry 70hp diesel locomotive and four different van and wagon types. The diminutive Baguley-Drewry diesel locomotives were built in…

  • Your Gallery | Flying Scotsman at NRM

    Your Gallery | Flying Scotsman at NRM

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    Look at this LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman being coaled up at the National Railway Museum

  • Your Gallery | BR Standard 4 Class 80080

    Your Gallery | BR Standard 4 Class 80080

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    Roger Smith, all the way from New Zealand, has sent in this immaculately presented BR Standard 4 Class 80080

  • Your Gallery | BR Standard 4 Class 80080

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    Roger Smith, all the way from New Zealand, has sent in this immaculately presented BR Standard 4 Class 80080

  • MBE for Barrow Hill saviour & OBE for Director of London Transport Museum

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    New Year’s Honours List include Mervyn Allcock and Sam Mullins

  • MBE for Barrow Hill saviour & OBE for Director of London Transport Museum

    MBE for Barrow Hill saviour & OBE for Director of London Transport Museum

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    New Year’s Honours List include Mervyn Allcock and Sam Mullins

  • Dean Forest Railway buys WR pannier No. 9682 at Southall

    Dean Forest Railway buys WR pannier No. 9682 at Southall

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    THE Dean Forest Railway has bought WR pannier No. 9682 from the GWR Preservation Group at Southall. 1940-built GWR Toad brake No. 17488 is also included in the deal. A team of members has been busy getting No. 9682, which is currently dismantled, ready to move to Norchard, where it will join classmate No. 9681…

  • All-new luxury carriage kicks off era for Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

    All-new luxury carriage kicks off era for Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway

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    A new, luxury observation carriage built by the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways for Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway has been delivered to Cumbria. The carriage, which offers panoramic views, was built at Boston Lodge Works to a similar design as the Ff&WHR’s Pullman observation cars, and is set to become a blueprint for a programme…

  • ‘Threatened’ Padstow station returns as museum

    ‘Threatened’ Padstow station returns as museum

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    Six years after Padstow station – the westernmost point on the Southern Railway – was faced with the threat of demolition, it has been reborn as a showpiece museum for the town. Fears were sounded in 2012 when radon gas, four times higher than the recommended levels, was detected in the station house, along with…

  • Catering and all access coaches progress at SVR

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    By Paul Appleton WORK is progressing well on the overhaul of GWR Kitchen Car No. 9615, according to Neil Taylor, head of locomotives and rolling stock engineering at the Severn Valley Railway. This long-term project has around a further two years to go before the vehicle can enter traffic, but as Neil said: “We have…

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