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  • Preserving the past: The Treasures of Beamish

    Preserving the past: The Treasures of Beamish

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Mark Smithers visits Beamish Museum, one of the North East’s leading regional heritage attractions, featuring several unique railway exhibits. IN THE January 2016 issue of The Railway Magazine, my feature looked in detail at the Tanfield Railway and its important collection of industrial locomotives, many of which have a strong connection with the north-east of England.…

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  • PROTECTING THE INFRASTRUCTURE: Bridge Strikes – Educating the offenders

    PROTECTING THE INFRASTRUCTURE: Bridge Strikes – Educating the offenders

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Overheight vehicles hitting railway bridges has become a frequent occurrence. Network Rail is working to educate the haulage and bus industry but also pursues compensation claims against the offenders. Chris Milner investigates. SOMEWHERE in the country, a railway bridge is hit by a vehicle every day. It’s a staggering statistic, and such incidents continue to…

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  • Branch line focus: RAILS TO GUNNISLAKE

    Branch line focus: RAILS TO GUNNISLAKE

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FROM OUR ARCHIVES The Tamar Valley branch is poised for a secure future with talk of a reopening to Tavistock. Mike Fenton looks at the history and current operation of this scenic line from Plymouth to Gunnislake. LOOK at any railway route map of the far west of England and you are immediately aware of…

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  • PRACTICE & PERFORMANCE: Inverness – ‘somewhere in the south’

    PRACTICE & PERFORMANCE: Inverness – ‘somewhere in the south’

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    Sam Hewitt

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    For this month’s Practice & Performance, Keith Farr recalls several historic runs over the former Highland Railway’s Far North line from Inverness to Wick and Thurso – a route with a stop-start nature. REMINISCING about the Highland Railway in 1957, historian C Hamilton Ellis observed that, by the time the weary traveller reached Caithness, “Inverness…

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  • LAST OF A LONG LINE 

    LAST OF A LONG LINE 

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The United Kingdom once boasted hundreds of wagon shops, but today has only one independent company devoted to the construction of new railfreight vehicles. Consultant editor Nick Pigott reports from the works of a great survivor – W H Davis of Langwith Junction. SO accustomed have Britons become to the destruction of the nation’s heavy…

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  • Engineering South Devon Railway style

    Engineering South Devon Railway style

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Cliff Thomas visits Buckfastleigh and finds traditional skills and historic engineering machines at South Devon Railway are as relevant to railways today as they ever were. AT THE northern end of the South Devon Railway’s Buckfastleigh site, away from the public areas of the line’s many attractions, there are some outwardly innocuous looking buildings… but…

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  • How 150 years of the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway came to an end

    How 150 years of the Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway came to an end

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    Web Editor

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    From the September 1984 issue of The Railway Magazine: John R. Smith takes a final trip over one of Cornwall’s pioneer lines and commemorates its 150th anniversary.

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  • DIESEL RENAISSANCE: Old Dogs, New Tricks

    DIESEL RENAISSANCE: Old Dogs, New Tricks

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    Sam Hewitt

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    One of the most surprising developments of recent years is the return of many ex-BR diesel locomotives to the main line. Ben Jones talks to some of the major players in this ‘re-emergence’ and finds out why it is happening. FLICKING through the pages of The RM every month, one of the most obvious trends…

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  • The beginning of the end for Southern steam

    The beginning of the end for Southern steam

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Having just marked 50 years since the publication of his first railway photograph, John H Bird recalls his photographic documentary of the decline of Southern steam on British Railways. New Year’s Day 1966 was a glorious winter’s day with a cloudless sky, bright sunshine and (best of all) Southern Region steam parading in front of…

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  • Locomotive icons: An American Classic – The Pennsylvania GG-1

    Locomotive icons: An American Classic – The Pennsylvania GG-1

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    Sam Hewitt

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    The incomparable ‘Pennsy Class’ ‘GG-1’ passenger locomotives were the apogee of electric traction development in the USA. Robert Humm relates their history and that of the Pennsylvania electric railway network. In the beginning, electric rail traction in the United States was confined to low-voltage streetcars and small industrial freight operations. The first main line electrification…

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