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Whisky Nine Six: LNER’s Highland Lifeline

27th January 2020 Shannon Butcher Features

As one of Britain’s longest distance trains prepares for the arrival of new rolling stock, Ben Jones takes a trip on LNER’s ‘Highland Chieftain’.

From The Archive: Sir Allen Sarle

21st January 2020 Shannon Butcher Features, From the archive, Network, Steam

The retirement of Sir Allen Sarle in the course of the next few weeks means the disappearance of an old familiar face from the management of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway.

Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway going from strength to strength

16th January 2020 Nigel Devereux Features

The Skipton to Ilkley line was closed by Dr Beeching & reopened later as the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and has gone from strength to strength!

From the archive: Restoring an armoured Simplex

8th January 2020 Nigel Devereux Features, From the archive

Greensand Railway Museum Trust (GRMT) was formed in 2000 and completed restoration of Baldwin 4-6-0T WDLR No. 778 to steam in 2007…

From the archive: Five decades of the Foxfield Railway

22nd December 2019 Nigel Devereux Features

Picture the scene. You are standing in a Staffordshire field beneath an almost cloudless blue sky.

Fred Dibnah Remembered | ‘Nut Roast’ and the Red Rose Steam Society

20th December 2019 Sam Hewitt Features

“Fred Dibnah was an icon for the movement, he has certainly left his mark and I, along and with many others, certainly feel the better for having known him.”

The big bird that flew too far: Part 2

18th December 2019 Nigel Devereux Diesel, Features, From the archive

It’s 50 years since the prototype diesel Kestrel first graced the British Rail network, but after four years it was sold to Russia.

From the archive: The big bird that flew too far

17th December 2019 Nigel Devereux Diesel, Features, Network, World

As the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive in the world at the time, Kestrel promised a motive power revolution… but it turned out to be ‘too good for its own good’!