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  • New South Shields interchange opens

    New South Shields interchange opens

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    Sam Hewitt

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    HE new £21million transport interchange in South Shields opened on August 4, with the first Tyne & Wear Metro train departing at 07.00 that day.  The station replaces the previous South Shields Metro stop, which closed on July 7 (RM August).  It is at the end of the Metro’s Yellow Line from Pelaw on the…

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  • Busy weekend at Guildford

    Busy weekend at Guildford

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    Sam Hewitt

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    GUILDFORD Model Engineering Society (GMES) held its annual gala over the weekend of July 6-7.   The club was formed in 1954 and moved to Stoke Park, Guildford in 1958, where it leases land in the eastern end of the park.  Access is from London Road at Burchatts Farm Gate. There are passenger lines of…

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  • Pilgrim returns to service at Watford Miniature Railway

    Pilgrim returns to service at Watford Miniature Railway

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    Sam Hewitt

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    MUCH-travelled 0-6-0T Pilgrim (D King 1980) is visiting the 10¼in-gauge Watford Miniature Railway (WMR) for the railway’s 60th anniversary season (RM July, p84). It arrived on August 6 following boiler work at Denver Light Railway, Birmingham. Pilgrim was built for the Wells & Walsingham Railway, Norfolk, running there from the line’s opening in 1982 until…

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  • UK railway news round-up

    UK railway news round-up

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    Sam Hewitt

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    This week we cover Stephenson’s Rocket returning to the National Railway Museum, a senseless attack at a tube station in London, a Caledonian sleeper service strike and a UN report that claims hundreds of miles of coastal railways are at risk of flooding by 2100.

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  • Old and new attractions at Newby Hall Railway

    Old and new attractions at Newby Hall Railway

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A VISIT by Narrow Gauge Railway Society members to the 10¼in-gauge Newby Hall Railway on May 12 found No. 4433 Ivatt Atlantic (David Curwen & Edgar Newbery 1965) recently arrived from the Audley End Miniature Railway, Essex, via a March 12 auction (RM May, p84). The 4-4-2 did not appear to have entered service yet and…

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  • Manx Heritage Transport Festival highlights

    Manx Heritage Transport Festival highlights

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    Sam Hewitt

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    MARKING of the 125th anniversary of Manx Electric Railway (MER) services to Laxey during the July 24-28 Manx Heritage Transport Festival included trams running ‘as’ Nos. 3, 4, 8 and 24 – four original trams destroyed in the 1930 Laxey shed fire.  The event also featured the return to service of trailers Nos. 37 and 49, following…

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  • Three Katie’s booked for Kirklees gala!

    Three Katie’s booked for Kirklees gala!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Friends of Kirklees Light Railway’s Annual Steam & Diesel Gala Weekend on September 14-15 will feature two visiting locos and a resident – all named Katie. The event theme is Estate Railways, with visiting locos comprising resurrected 1896-built Heywood 0-4-0T Katie and 0-8-2 River Irt, from Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway; Eaton Hall Railway’s 1996-built…

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  • ‘The Phoenix Railway’ celebrates 10 years at Skegness leisure park

    ‘The Phoenix Railway’ celebrates 10 years at Skegness leisure park

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway (LCLR) marked 10 years of operating at Skegness Water Leisure Park on July 13.  LCLR ran at Humberston, near Cleethorpes, between 1960-1985, with the equipment relocated to Skegness in 1992 following a period of storage. Volunteers and supporters who then rebuilt the railway at Skegness Water Leisure Park and have…

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  • Ringing the loco changes at Richmond as Pixie arrives

    Ringing the loco changes at Richmond as Pixie arrives

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    Sam Hewitt

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    OPERATIONAL O&K 0-4-0WT – identified as 3136/1908 and named Susan –has left Jeremy Martin’s Richmond Light Railway.  It is now at Hollycombe Steam in the Country (formally Hollycombe Working Steam Museum), following its acquisition by a Hollycombe trustee.  The nameplates have been removed (they honoured a member of Jeremy Martin’s family) as have the works…

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  • Quintet steam at Threlkeld museum’s August gala

    Quintet steam at Threlkeld museum’s August gala

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THRELKELD Quarry and Mining Museum’s July 27-28 Annual Steam Gala featured four guest steam locomotives.  Bagnall 0-4-0ST Kidbrooke (2043/1917) from Yaxham Light Railway and Statfold Barn Railway trio Peckett 0-6-0ST Liassic (1632/1923), Kerr, Stuart ‘Wren’ 3128/1918 Roger and Hunslet 0-4-0ST Jack Lane (3904/2005) joined Threlkeld resident Bagnall 0-4-0ST Sir Tom for the event. The extended…

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