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  • New platform 0 for Leeds in latest city investment

    New platform 0 for Leeds in latest city investment

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    Sam Hewitt

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    LEEDS station will receive an additional platform as part of a £161million investment programme to improve train journeys and the functionality of the station. Current platforms 1-6 are to be lengthened to cater for longer trains, but it is the creation of a new platform 0 in the site of the current long-stay car park…

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  • West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes

    West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It was opened in 1965 as a normal, steam-operated 9½in-gauge railway.

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  • Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

    Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…

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  • Narrow and minimum gauge at Warley show

    Narrow and minimum gauge at Warley show

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FULL-sized narrow gauge exhibits at the November 23-25 Warley Model Railway Exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC featured Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway’s Davey Paxman 4-6-2 No. 2 Northern Chief and 4-8-2 No. 6 Samson, together with the line’s Royal Saloon coach, War Office Locomotive Trust’s Hunslet 4-6-0T WDLR No. 303 and Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell, Clarke ‘P’ class 0-6-0T…

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  • New boiler for Darent

    New boiler for Darent

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A NEW boiler barrel is being built for Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway’s (H&KWR) resident steam loco Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Darent. The chassis is undergoing overhaul at London Museum of Water & Steam (RM Oct), withthe boiler having been sent to A G Bicknell & Co Ltd for assessment and repair. The smokebox, front tube…

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  • Russell steams to Beddgelert

    Russell steams to Beddgelert

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE WELSH Highland Heritage Railway’s (WHHR) Hunslet 2-6-2T Russell made an historic trip from its Gelert’s Farm base onto Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) metals to steam to Beddgelert on November 25. This was the first time Russell had steamed over the Porthmadog to Beddgelert section of WHR since 1937. Russell hauled replica North Wales Narrow…

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  • Downpatrick completes Bulleid ‘Park Royal’ restoration

    Downpatrick completes Bulleid ‘Park Royal’ restoration

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    Sam Hewitt

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    PASSENGERS are once again able to experience travelling in one of Córas Iompair Éireann’s (CIÉ) Park Royal carriages after the Downpatrick & County Down Railway (DCDR) completed the restoration of 1955-built Brake Standard Open No. 1944. The vehicle emerged from the DCDR’s workshops on November 24 for its first gauging runs over the line behind GM…

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  • Eustace Forth returns to North Yorkshire

    Eustace Forth returns to North Yorkshire

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    Sam Hewitt

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    ROBERT Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-4-0ST No. 15 Eustace Forth (7063/1942) made a sort of homecoming to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) in late-November after being hired in for steam heating duties. The former CEGB loco was resident on the line for a short time from 1972. It arrived direct from hire at Locomotion in Shildon,…

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  • Busy winter scheduled for Middleton Railway workshop

    Busy winter scheduled for Middleton Railway workshop

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VOLUNTEERS at the Middleton Railway (MR) will be kept busy this coming winter as the Leeds line works to complete a number of mechanical and engineering projects during the pre-season ‘quiet’ spell. Top of the list is finishing the overhaul of ex-LNER Sentinel 4wVBT No. 8837 (BR No. 68153), which is now in the final stages at…

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  • No. 2874 centenary sees 2-8-0 become GWR memorial

    No. 2874 centenary sees 2-8-0 become GWR memorial

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NOVEMBER marked the 100th anniversary since the completion of unrestored GWR ‘28XX’ 2-8-0 No. 2874 at Swindon. To mark the anniversary – and also the centenary of the end of the First World War – the 2874 Trust has dedicated the heavy freight loco to the GWR employees who lost their lives during the two world…

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