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Category: Features

Book of the Week: Railways & Recollections: The Midland Mainland in London 1974-80

25th April 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July).

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Book of the Week: Young Railway Photographer of the Year 2022

11th April 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

In 2018 the Rail Camera Club organised the ‘Rail Cameraman’ exhibition at Locomotion, Shildon, showcasing the work of the club’s members.

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Book of the Week: The Midland Mainline in London 1974-80

28th March 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July). From then on, improvements and widenings were undertaken through to 1905.

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Unboxing ‘Flash’ the Local Express Train from Hornby

23rd March 2022 Ben Stockdale Features, Modelling, Reviews, Video

Today we’re unboxing a recent model train from Hornby called ‘Flash’ the local express train. It’s a remote-controlled battery train set targeted at the younger train enthusiast. It’s a great starting point for someone new

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The World of Railwayana

21st March 2022 Darren Hendley Features

The term ‘railwayana’ can cover all manner of rail-related memorabilia, from Victorian carriage prints, right up to nameplates recently removed from recently withdrawn HST power cars. Collecting such material has become a way for many

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Looking both ways: When Robert Fairlie ‘Double Up’ Steam

17th March 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam
Double Fairlie Merddin Emrys at Harbour station, Porthmadog, where the Ffestiniog Railway joins the Welsh Highland Railway. The locomotive dates from 1879. JAMES WAITE/Ff&WHR

The Ffestiniog Railway is famous as the only place in the world where the legendary double Fairlie articulated ‘back-to-back’ steam locomotives can be seen in action…

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The Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside

2nd March 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam
Foster, Rastrick & Company’s Agenoria, sister to the Stourbridge Lion, was a ‘star’ early locomotives exhibit in the Great Hall of the National Railway at York. It is the oldest complete locomotive in the museum. ROBIN JONES

The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.

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Book of the Week: Diesel Dawn 5

21st February 2022 Shannon Butcher Diesel, Features

Increasing affluence and a second-hand car allowed the author a geographical range previously denied to him and with various pals he embarked in the 1970s and 1980s on a number of expeditions.

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Why does snow prevent rail services from running?

15th February 2022 Shannon Butcher Features, Network

In years gone by the UK has faced some relatively heavy snowfall, leaving passengers asking the question: Why does snow stop trains running?

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Book of the Week: Settle & Carlise Revival

14th February 2022 Shannon Butcher Features, Steam

The Settle & Carlisle railway runs across the roof of England, reaching the highest point on any mainline railway in the country, and carries both passenger services and freight traffic.

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