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  • Master of mixed traffic – forty years of Ireland’s ‘big’ GMs

    Master of mixed traffic – forty years of Ireland’s ‘big’ GMs

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    Sam Hewitt

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    This month (September 2016) marks the 40th anniversary of the arrival of the General Motors Class 071s in the Republic of Ireland. The ‘Big’ GMs (as they became known) went on to transform the nation’s loco-hauled services. Four decades later, they remain wholly intact as an operating class, as Gary Boyd-Hope explains. THE date is…

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  • Reflections of BR in the ’70s and ’80s

    Reflections of BR in the ’70s and ’80s

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    Sam Hewitt

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    During the 1970s and ’80s, railway photographer Andy Sparks took an alternative approach to documenting the railway. His black and white images of what to many of us were everyday scenes, have an evocative and gritty quality, focusing on the passengers, railwaymen and infrastructure. His recent book – British Rail Scene: The 1970s and early…

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  • Practice and Performance: Shap and Beattock Class 50s take the high road

    Practice and Performance: Shap and Beattock Class 50s take the high road

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The charity special fronted by The Railway Magazine took a pair of Class 50s from Crewe over Shap and Beattock to Glasgow for the first time in many years. JOHN HEATON FCILT analyses the performance of these veteran diesels that were back on a familiar route, along with a comparison of some historic runs. THE…

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  • Life of Riley: Steam’s newest works – where rails are not needed

    Life of Riley: Steam’s newest works – where rails are not needed

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ian Riley is now ensconced in his fourth railway workshops as his engineering company celebrates 25 years in the business. Nick Brodrick paid a first visit to Riley & Son (E) Ltd’s new Heywood premises. All pictures by the author, unless otherwise stated. WHAT do plastic bags and steam locomotives have in common? Answer? An…

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  • Railway on top of the world – positive times for Peru’s railways

    Railway on top of the world – positive times for Peru’s railways

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    Sam Hewitt

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    IN the August 2005 issue of The Railway Magazine Nick Pigott described the railways of Peru and some of the incredible infrastructure in use high in the Andes mountains. Nick rode on a freight train on the highest railway in the world – the Andean Central – which today has occasional passenger trains, but is…

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  • Lazarus Locomotives – Completing the set

    Lazarus Locomotives – Completing the set

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    Sam Hewitt

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    None of the Hawksworth ‘County’ 4-6-0 class survived the cutter’s torch despite their relatively young age when steam was phased out on BR’s Western Region. David Bradshaw provides an update on the Great Western Society’s project to re-create that missing link in the GWR passenger locomotive stable… but it needs a little help from RM…

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  • Names of the Past – P B Whitehouse

    Names of the Past – P B Whitehouse

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In the seventh of our series on the writers and artists who influenced the present generation of rail enthusiasts, Robert Humm recalls the life and times of the photographer, film maker, and pioneer preservationist Patrick Whitehouse. A phenomenon of the golden age of railway enthusiasm – those four decades of the 1950s to 1980s –…

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  • ACCIDENT ANALYSIS – Fatal Fracture

    ACCIDENT ANALYSIS – Fatal Fracture

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    Sam Hewitt

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    In the fourth of our series looking back at major railway accidents, Fraser Pithie recalls what was a terrible accident in terms of loss of life – an event that took place 50 years ago, in 1967. Much was learnt from the tragic and profound events that arose from a fateful Bonfire Night at Hither…

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  • Class 50s at fifty: Half a century of Hoovering

    Class 50s at fifty: Half a century of Hoovering

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It is 50 years since BR took delivery of its last mixed traffic Type 4 diesel design. Ben Jones looks back at the early life of the English Electric ‘D400s’ and the recent main line revival of the surviving machines. IT COULD be argued the Class 50s are the diesel equivalent of Oliver Bulleid’s famous…

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  • Bridgnorth station: Building for the future

    Bridgnorth station: Building for the future

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Ben Jones visits Bridgnorth to discover how the Severn Valley Railway is investing in new facilities to cope with ever-increasing visitor numbers. BRITAIN’S railways are busier than they’ve ever been, and our world-class heritage lines are no exception. From miniature railways to extensive standard gauge operations such as the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), more and…

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