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Manx Heritage Transport Festival highlights
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MARKING of the 125th anniversary of Manx Electric Railway (MER) services to Laxey during the July 24-28 Manx Heritage Transport Festival included trams running ‘as’ Nos. 3, 4, 8 and 24 – four original trams destroyed in the 1930 Laxey shed fire. The event also featured the return to service of trailers Nos. 37 and 49, following…
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Quintet steam at Threlkeld museum’s August gala
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THRELKELD Quarry and Mining Museum’s July 27-28 Annual Steam Gala featured four guest steam locomotives. Bagnall 0-4-0ST Kidbrooke (2043/1917) from Yaxham Light Railway and Statfold Barn Railway trio Peckett 0-6-0ST Liassic (1632/1923), Kerr, Stuart ‘Wren’ 3128/1918 Roger and Hunslet 0-4-0ST Jack Lane (3904/2005) joined Threlkeld resident Bagnall 0-4-0ST Sir Tom for the event. The extended…
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No. 401: The peak of industrial locomotive development
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No. 401, with surviving sister No. 403, are generally considered to represent the pinnacle of industrial steam locomotive design. They were part of a trio built for the Steel Company of Wales (SCOW) for its Abbey, Margam and Port Talbot works, where they would be evaluated alongside three new six-coupled diesel electric locomotives, which had…
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6412 returning as WSR marks four decades of BL steam
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COLLETT ‘64XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 6412 will return to the railway it called home for 33 years next month when it takes part in the West Somerset Railway’s anniversary gala on June 8-9. The event will celebrate 40 years since trains started running to Bishops Lydeard on June 9, 1979, and aims to capture some of the…
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Sneak Peek: Keeping the ‘Middy’ memories alive
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Craig Amess tells the story of the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway, which was finally closed in 1952 after years of struggle and debt
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New locomotive destined for Groudle Glen Railway
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A new 2ft-gauge Bagnall ‘Sipat’-design 0-4-0ST locomotive is set for Groudle Glen Railway after its unveiling last month.
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Pioneering WSR Bagnall steams again on Tyneside
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A LOCOMOTIVE which worked on the West Somerset Railway in its early years has returned to steam after 11 years. Bagnall New Standard 18 class 0-6-0ST No. 2994 Vulcan, more recently known as No. 401 Thomas Burt MP, is now based at the North Tyneside Steam Railway, and was steamed on January 17 for the…
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Six GCR ‘Windcutter’ wagons now at Blaenavon
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A RAKE of six BR 16T ‘Windcutter’ mineral wagons, borrowed from the Great Central Railway on a 10-year loan, will be first run in public by custodian the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway at its May 26-27 ‘Coal Train Weekend.’ The wagons have moved to Blaenavon on an initial 10-year loan (HR 249), with a subsequent…
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Yet another steam fleet addition for the Moors
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By Roger Melton AFTER many years of operating with the Lambton, Hetton & Joicey 0-6-2Ts as its smallest steam engines, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has added Cockerill 0-4-0T tram engine Lucie to its fleet – primarily to act as a self-propelling steam heating plant. Now a second industrial tank is poised to be…
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Pontypool leases 16-tonners from Great Central Railway in 10-year deal
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SURPLUS 16-ton mineral wagons from the Great Central Railway’s ‘Windcutter’ fleet have been given a new home at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway (P&BR). Six of the ex-BR wagons, which are not required for the GCR’s demonstration rake, arrived in South Wales on January 3, courtesy of the David Clarke Railway Trust. The wagons have…
