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  • Search for Sir Vincent Raven relatives for North Eastern Railway celebrations

    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.

  • Issue 253 OUT NOW!

    Issue 253 OUT NOW!

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    Flying Scotsman storms Swanage! Explore the history of Britain’s railways! Bahamas booked for Vintage Trains! Issue 253 of Heritage Railway magazine has got the lot!

  • Your Gallery | NNR Spring Gala

    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

    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.

  • Adams ‘Radial’ delights at Bluebell branch weekend

    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…

  • ‘Jubilee’ and ‘2MT’ treble bring gala success to the KWVR

    ‘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…

  • First steam over Cawledge Viaduct in preservation era

    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…

  • Final push for Llangollen Railway’s £10,000 appeal to fill the Corwen ‘gap’

    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…

  • 1501 and Barclay heading to west country for golden celebration gala

    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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