LMS

  • The coaling plant story: Towers of Strength

    The coaling plant story: Towers of Strength

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    The demolition of Immingham’s mechanical coaling plant last year has left Britain with just one example of these huge ferro-concrete monoliths.

  • ‘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…

  • Standard fayre at Poynton

    Standard fayre at Poynton

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    MOST of the Big Four’s flagship express locomotives were handsome beasts.

  • Headboard memories for trainspotters of a certain age

    Headboard memories for trainspotters of a certain age

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    Two headboards will bring back memories for we trainspotters.

  • Bahamas makes a triumphant return

    Bahamas makes a triumphant return

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    February 9 and 16 were landmark days for the Bahamas Locomotive Society.

  • What’s in the Shops: Streamlined ‘Duchess’ duo from Hornby

    What’s in the Shops: Streamlined ‘Duchess’ duo from Hornby

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    Hornby releases two more LMS ‘Duchesses’, this time with LMS crimson lake and gilt streamlining and in single and double-chimney forms.  The release of two more streamlined ‘Princess Coronation’ or ‘Duchess’ 4-6-2 express passenger locomotives by Hornby means that the LMS modeller is now well catered for with the iconic express passenger locomotives of the…

  • ‘Wish-list’ acquisitions boost for Cumbrian railway museum

    ‘Wish-list’ acquisitions boost for Cumbrian railway museum

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    By Geoff Courtney THE owner of one of the country’s newest regional railway museums is celebrating the acquisition of two local railwayana items that have been on his wish-list for many years but had come onto the market only recently. They are a venerable Maryport & Carlisle signalbox nameboard and a totem sign from the…

  • 64C Dalry Road shed – an inspiration to modellers

    64C Dalry Road shed – an inspiration to modellers

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    Ian Lamb recalls his fascination with the former LMS ‘Jubilee’ 4-6-0s that were no strangers to Dalry Road (64C), a sub-shed of Edinburgh’s St Margaret’s Depot, and one whose layout is well worth modelling. Nowadays our lives seem increasingly to be dominated by sport. If it isn’t football, it’s tennis; if not athletics, cricket, even…

  • It’s high fives as GW Railwayana lives up to its name

    It’s high fives as GW Railwayana lives up to its name

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    With a selection of five GWR nameplates, supported by six GWR cabsides and five smokebox numberplates from named locomotives, GW Railwayana will be living up to its name at its March 16 auction, although both the LMS and Southern Railway get a slice of the action. The five GWR nameplates are Wardour Castle and Neath…

  • Steam at St Margarets in the Fifties

    Steam at St Margarets in the Fifties

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    In issue 249, I enjoyed Gavin Morrison’s retro look at Holbeck shed’s last years of service in the 1960s. My memories of this atmospheric Midland Railway ‘Cathedral of Steam’ are from a decade or so earlier when steam ruled the rails and ex-Midland and LMS locomotives dominated. In my school days when I had rare…

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