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Your Gallery | 70000 Brittania at Widney Manor
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Neil Dyson has sent in this great photo of 70000 Brittania.
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Your Gallery | Peckett 2000 at Great North Steam Fair
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Roger Hempsall has sent in these pictures of Peckett 2000 from his time at the Great North Steam Fair at the weekend.
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Search for Sir Vincent Raven relatives for North Eastern Railway celebrations
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Sir Vincent Raven was an English railway engineer and chief mechanical engineer of NER from 1910 to 1922.
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Your Gallery | NNR Spring Gala
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John Hunting sent in this superb picture taken from the NNR Spring Gala!
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Restoration of former Barry Prairie continuing at Barry
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The project originally began at Llangollen, but the loco moved with Mr Pearce when he relocated to South Wales.
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Adams ‘Radial’ delights at Bluebell branch weekend
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IT may have been largely on static display only, but the Bluebell Railway’s newly repainted Adams ‘Radial’ 4-4-2T No. 30583 still managed to steal the show at the railway’s Branch Line Weekend on March 15-17. The former Lyme Regis branch loco has been restored back to its BR lined black guise by the team from…
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‘Jubilee’ and ‘2MT’ treble bring gala success to the KWVR
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THE Keighley & Worth Valley Railway witnessed a 20% year-on-year increase in visitor numbers to its Spring Steam Gala over the weekend of March 8-10, with almost 3,000 passengers travelling over the three days. There was a distinctly Midland Region feel to the locomotive line-up, with seven of the eight engines in steam having been…
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First steam over Cawledge Viaduct in preservation era
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HISTORY was made at the Aln Valley Railway on March 15 when the first steam-hauled train of the preservation era worked across Cawledge Viaduct on the former Alnwick to Alnmouth branch. Hudswell, Clarke 0-6-0T Richboro (1243/1917) was given the honour of being the first locomotive to travel over the full length of the restored railway…
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Final push for Llangollen Railway’s £10,000 appeal to fill the Corwen ‘gap’
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THE Llangollen Railway’s appeal to raise £10,000 to help fund the infilling of the ‘Gap’ in the embankment at its new Corwen Central station site had reached the £7,800 mark by mid-March. Support has come from all over the country as promotion of the appeal has spread, helped by a BBC news item on the…
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1501 and Barclay heading to west country for golden celebration gala
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Outside-cylindered Hawksworth pannier No. 1501 is making its first visit to the South Devon Railway.
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