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  • Revolutionary lightweight tram planned for Coventry

    Revolutionary lightweight tram planned for Coventry

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    It’s design could revise thinking for cities keen to adopt VLRs as a way of cutting emissions.

  • Calbourne and black ‘Radial’ for Bluebell’s branch gala

    Calbourne and black ‘Radial’ for Bluebell’s branch gala

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    The Isle of Wight Steam Railway’s ex-LSWR ‘O2’ No. W24 Calbourne will be returning to the UK mainland.

  • Counting their blessings

    Counting their blessings

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    As the Churchward County Trust celebrates its first anniversary, project leader Gary Boyd-Hope explains more about the scheme to build GWR 4-4-0 No. 3840 County of Montgomery and the Trust’s successes of the past year. NOVEMBER 13, 2018 was a pretty ordinary day for the majority of the UK population. It was largely overcast everywhere,…

  • No. 134 overhaul gathering pace at Inchicore works

    No. 134 overhaul gathering pace at Inchicore works

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    THE overhaul of the RPSI’s GM single cab Class 121 No. 134 by Iarnród Éireann-Irish Rail is making rapid progress at Inchicore, as the old body platework is stripped back in readiness for replacement. The RPSI’s project manager Gerry Mooney describes the overhaul as “the biggest diesel restoration ever undertaken in Ireland”, and it is clear…

  • County Donegal tank is back ahead of Foyle VR revival

    County Donegal tank is back ahead of Foyle VR revival

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    The return follows a £45,000 cosmetic overhaul by Heritage Engineering Ireland.

  • Aveling Sirapite makes Mid-Suffolk foursome

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    The Long Shop Museum at Leiston will be without its popular Aveling & Porter 4wWTG Sirapite this summer.

  • Tornado salutes the Tornado as aircraft finishes active service

    Tornado salutes the Tornado as aircraft finishes active service

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    PEPPERCORN ‘A1’ No. 60163 Tornado paid a symbolic tribute to the aircraft that gave it its name during its stay on the Wensleydale Railway.  Three of the fighter bombers performed a nationwide farewell flypast from their base at RAF Marham in Norfolk on February 9, flying over Rutland, the West Midlands, north Wales, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire…

  • Maroon ‘S160’ returns to NYMR after overhaul

    Maroon ‘S160’ returns to NYMR after overhaul

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    BALDWIN ‘S160’ 2-8-0 No. 2253 has returned to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) after a major 2½-year rebuild by Northern Steam Engineering at Stockton.  It arrived at New Bridge Yard on February 13 sporting an attractive lined maroon livery.  On February 20 it was hauled from Pickering to Grosmont, where the overhaul will be completed…

  • ‘Caley’ tank for NNR, East Lancs and Swanage lines

    ‘Caley’ tank for NNR, East Lancs and Swanage lines

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    THE Caledonian Railway’s No. 419 played a starring role at the Churnet Valley Railway’s Winter Steam Gala on February 23-24, and the Scottish Railway Preservation Society is capitalising on the 0-4-4T’s presence in England by adding in further visits to heritage lines. First up for the Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway-based loco is the East Lancashire Railway’s…

  • Severn Valley Railway pannier sees red

    Severn Valley Railway pannier sees red

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    The ‘57XX’ is being prepared for a re-paint into LT ‘bullock maroon’.

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