Diesel

  • Talyllyn buys prime land next to Tywyn’s Pendre Works

    Talyllyn buys prime land next to Tywyn’s Pendre Works

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    THE Talyllyn Railway (TR) has bought a key piece of land alongside its Pendre Works, comprising two cottages on Frankwell Street and land opposite the West Shed at Pendre known as ‘The Orchard’. General manager Stuart Williams said: “The price being asked for both cottages and the land was deemed to be reasonable, and so…

  • RPSI outlines plans for first 2019 railtours

    RPSI outlines plans for first 2019 railtours

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    THE Railway Preservation Society of Ireland has released details of its first two major railtours for the first half of 2019. First up is the ‘West Awake’ (a play on the well-known song The West’s Awake, by The Dubliners) diesel tour on Saturday, April 13, which, like the previous diesel-hauled railtours, is a fundraiser for…

  • Bachmann’s £3709.90 ‘thank you’ in memory of a much-loved colleague

    Bachmann’s £3709.90 ‘thank you’ in memory of a much-loved colleague

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    Bachmann Europe presented a cheque for £3709.90 to the Leicestershire-based charity Loros at its Glenfield headquarters on Friday, January 25. In 2018, a model of Class 37 diesel-electric locomotive Merl Evans 1947-2016, which fittingly carries the number 37099, was released as part of Bachmann’s Branchline range of OO-scale models, and it is sales of that…

  • In praise of bumpy journeys on ‘Pacers’

    In praise of bumpy journeys on ‘Pacers’

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    “I photographed my first one at Whitby in 1986 and have liked them ever since.”

  • Boden Rail ‘50’ sold to Great Central

    Boden Rail ‘50’ sold to Great Central

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    THE Great Central Railway has bought Class 50 No. 50017 Royal Oak from Boden Rail. The sale of the ‘Hoover’, minus its main line running safety systems, was completed on February 1, ending a nervous few days in which the loco had been threatened with scrapping.Royal Oak, one of two Class 50s owned by Boden…

  • Project to re-create a D16/1 LMS 10000 after national appeal

    Project to re-create a D16/1 LMS 10000 after national appeal

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    No. 10000 was one of a pair of locomotives designed and built by the LMS and English Electric.

  • Throwback to a 1967 Cumbrian camping coach holiday

    Throwback to a 1967 Cumbrian camping coach holiday

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    Trevor Gregg’s 1967 holiday included visits to Lostock Hall, Wigan Springs Branch, Crewe South and Birkenhead sheds.

  • Feature | Re-creating Ivatt’s LMS diesel pioneer

    Feature | Re-creating Ivatt’s LMS diesel pioneer

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    No. 10000 was withdrawn in 1963 and 10001 in 1966, and both were sent for scrapping in 1968.

  • Saving a main line railway: a remarkable achievement!

    Saving a main line railway: a remarkable achievement!

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    50 years ago this year, the first seeds were sown in a bid to save a section of the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire. Graham Oliver, the railway’s former chief executive, recalls those early days of an embryo scheme which has subsequently blossomed into the country’s only double-track main line preserved railway.  As 1968 progressed…

  • Class 47 No. 47712 set for main line return

    Class 47 No. 47712 set for main line return

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    Crewe Diesel Preservation Group has announced that its Brush-built Type 4 is to return to the main line as part of an 18-month agreement with Locomotive Services Limited. In a statement, CDPG said: “This is a safeguarded deal whereby No. 47712 will complement LSL’s existing fleet of Class 47s on fill-in work. This will include…

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