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Your Gallery | Mayflower in Preston
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BR built Thompson B1 no 61306 Mayflower seen here at Preston
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Your Gallery | 5199 and 41312 at Ropley
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Jim Carruthers has sent in great pictures of 5199 and 41312 at Ropley.
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West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes
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It was opened in 1965 as a normal, steam-operated 9½in-gauge railway.
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Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers
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THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…
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Locomotive Performance | Then and Now
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Don Benn describes the performance of Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line.
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Great steam engineers of the nineteenth century: PART IIII
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Brian Sharpe outlines how the role of the chief mechanical engineer developed during the 1840s.
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New boiler for Darent
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A NEW boiler barrel is being built for Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway’s (H&KWR) resident steam loco Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Darent. The chassis is undergoing overhaul at London Museum of Water & Steam (RM Oct), withthe boiler having been sent to A G Bicknell & Co Ltd for assessment and repair. The smokebox, front tube…
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Russell steams to Beddgelert
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THE WELSH Highland Heritage Railway’s (WHHR) Hunslet 2-6-2T Russell made an historic trip from its Gelert’s Farm base onto Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) metals to steam to Beddgelert on November 25. This was the first time Russell had steamed over the Porthmadog to Beddgelert section of WHR since 1937. Russell hauled replica North Wales Narrow…
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Eustace Forth returns to North Yorkshire
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ROBERT Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-4-0ST No. 15 Eustace Forth (7063/1942) made a sort of homecoming to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) in late-November after being hired in for steam heating duties. The former CEGB loco was resident on the line for a short time from 1972. It arrived direct from hire at Locomotion in Shildon,…
