Miniature
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Help the Nene Valley Railway build a new engine shed – in 5 inch gauge!
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The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) is appealing for support to help complete the engine shed for its new 5ins gauge Wansford Miniature Railway. Expected to open during the 2021 season, the line will connect the play area with the NVR’s workshop, providing a welcome additional attraction on site as well as a training aid. Trackwork…
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Busy weekend at Guildford
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GUILDFORD Model Engineering Society (GMES) held its annual gala over the weekend of July 6-7. The club was formed in 1954 and moved to Stoke Park, Guildford in 1958, where it leases land in the eastern end of the park. Access is from London Road at Burchatts Farm Gate. There are passenger lines of…
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Pilgrim returns to service at Watford Miniature Railway
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MUCH-travelled 0-6-0T Pilgrim (D King 1980) is visiting the 10¼in-gauge Watford Miniature Railway (WMR) for the railway’s 60th anniversary season (RM July, p84). It arrived on August 6 following boiler work at Denver Light Railway, Birmingham. Pilgrim was built for the Wells & Walsingham Railway, Norfolk, running there from the line’s opening in 1982 until…
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Old and new attractions at Newby Hall Railway
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A VISIT by Narrow Gauge Railway Society members to the 10¼in-gauge Newby Hall Railway on May 12 found No. 4433 Ivatt Atlantic (David Curwen & Edgar Newbery 1965) recently arrived from the Audley End Miniature Railway, Essex, via a March 12 auction (RM May, p84). The 4-4-2 did not appear to have entered service yet and…
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VIDEO: Hornby Margate open weekend
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There were smiles all-round in a corner of Margate over the weekend of August 17-18 as the doors were opened to Hornby’s spiritual home.
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Beale Railway commemorates park trustee Richard Howard
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THE Alan Keef 0-6-0DH steam-outline loco delivered new to the 10¼in-gauge Beale Railway in February 2018 and named Howard is seen on March 10. Its identity is confirmed as Keef 103 of 2017, not as previously stated. The terminus station is called Howard’s Halt, which like the loco, is named in memory of Richard Howard,…
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Cleethorpes gala to host visiting locos
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Two Exmoor-built locomotives to visit the line for the first time