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Sam Hewitt

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27th February 2017

MARCH 2017 ISSUE: Newspapers were carried on trains for a century and a half between the 1830s and the 1980s. Consultant editor Nick Pigott, who worked as a Fleet Street journalist for 13 years, tells the little-known story of the overnight services that rushed the news from press to public. ANYONE returning home by train…
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A return to Amberley

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Sam Hewitt

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22nd February 2017

Mark Smithers first visited the Amberley museum in 1987, and returned to the railway for its recent gala to review nearly 30 years of progress. FOLLOWING Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre’s summer gala in 1987, I wrote a feature covering what had been achieved during the first five years of railway preservation at this Sussex-based…
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George Dow

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Sam Hewitt

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10th February 2017

In the fifth in our series of railway writers and artists, the life of the great communicator and railway historian supreme is recounted by Robert Humm. George Dow was a man of many parts. Professionally he was a career railwayman for his entire working life, much of it spent in public relations on the LNER and…
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Push and Pull – diesel-style

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Sam Hewitt

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10th February 2017

With the Great Central Railway-based diesel brake tender nearing completion, Nick Pigott tells the story of a unique new-build project. MANY types of modern traction-era rolling stock have survived into preservation, but a notable exception is the diesel brake tender. These extraordinary vehicles were introduced in the early 1960s when British Railways realised that many…
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Fatal signals at Stechford

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Sam Hewitt

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8th February 2017

Still reeling as the implementation of Dr Beeching’s Reshaping the Railways programme of station and line closures pressed ahead, the railway experienced a bad year in 1967. In the first of a series marking the 50th anniversary of 1967 railway accidents Fraser Pithie considers a fatal collision on the West Coast Main Line at Stechford…
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Western requiem

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Sam Hewitt

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8th February 2017

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the end of the class on British Rail and John Heaton FCILT recalls some performances by the ‘Westerns’ in their heyday. What made the ‘Western’ 2,700hp Western Region diesel hydraulics so different? This is a question that is often posed, especially by observers who were too young to…
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March 1901: The clumsy one!

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Web Editor

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23rd January 2017

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From the archive: The Model Railway Exhibition 1935

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Web Editor

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23rd January 2017

An event report from The Model Railway Exhibition 1935, originally published in the June 1935 edition of The Railway Magazine.
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June 1940: 11,000 railway horses

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Web Editor

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20th January 2017

From the June 1940 issue of The Railway Magazine: In Fine Fettle: Eleven thousand well-groomed British Railway Horses proudly maintain the link between factory and Railway depot. They breathe the spirited energy which animates every section of British Railways. Door to Door Service by British Railways. Our 125+ year archive is available to all subscribers of The…
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March 1924: Shipping locomotives to India

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Web Editor

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18th January 2017

The shipment of locomotives, fully assembled, is not new, but such cargoes have up till quite recently been confined to short sea passages. The enormous advantages in time, labour, and convenience of transporting railway engines in this manner has given rise to the experiment being tried for much longer voyages. The view reproduced shows one of…
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