Western region
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Chinnor steam gala guest loco announced
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A BR Western Region tender locomotive which normally operates in the Cotswolds is due to star in a gala at an Oxfordshire heritage line in September. ‘Manor’ 4-6-0 No. 7820 Dinmore Manor is set to make its debut on the Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway (C&PRR) during the line’s September 13-15 steam gala. The 1950-built…
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Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled
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Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.
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‘King’ and ‘A4’ to head 15-engine North Yorkshire Autumn Steam Gala
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Didcot’s GWR ‘King’ No. 6023 King Edward II will break new ground for the class this autumn when it takes a starring role in the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s (NYMR) September 27-29 Autumn Steam Gala alongside ‘A4’ Union of South Africa. The visit will mark the BR blue Collett 4-6-0’s first foray north of the Midlands…
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Rare totem signs in starring role at July Stafford sale
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Rare British Railways station totem signs take centre stage at Railwayana Auctions UK’s next Stafford auction.
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What’s in the Shops: Farish six-car set in ‘Western Pullman’ guise
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Graham Farish has reissued its popular ‘Midland Pullman’ set in the reverse livery of its final service on the Western Region. Nigel Burkin examines it in detail. The popular N-gauge six-car ‘Midland Pullman’ set by Graham Farish has reappeared in the BR ‘Corporate’ livery of rail blue and grey in what was to be its…
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Cohen’s: A Northamptonshire railway graveyard
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The volume looks at one of the scrapyards which, sadly, locomotives did not get away to start a new life.
