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BULLEID ‘Battle of Britain’ No. 34081 92 Squadron is back and looking better than ever following an extensive overhaul at the Nene Valley Railway’s Wansford workshops. The work has been carried out by the Battle of Britain Locomotive Society over the last six years, starting almost as soon as the Light Pacific arrived at Wansford from…

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THE tender belonging to Stanier ‘Jubilee’ No. 45596 Bahamas has been fitted with an all-new tender tank at the Bahamas Locomotive Society’s Ingrow base at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. The new tank has been built by Hill & Websters Ltd, of Ashbourne, using Bahamas’ old tender as a pattern. It was lowered onto the…

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THE valley of the River Severn will regularly echo to the sound of a GWR ‘57XX’ 0-6-0PT once more during 2017 following the return to operation of the Severn Valley Railway’s (SVR) resident Kerr, Stuart-built No. 7714. Although there have been visits by South Devon Railway-based classmate No. L92 (5786), most recently in March 2015, and ‘64XX’…

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THE Thompson B1 Locomotive Trust’s No. 61264 has been confirmed as one of the star attractions at the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway’s curtain-raising steam gala on March 3-5. The railway is capitalising on the lifting of the year-long bridge weight restriction that prohibited locomotive movements to and from Haworth by bringing the BR black 4-6-0…

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PLANS by the South Devon Railway (SDR) for the construction of a new £157,000 rolling stock storage shed have been approved by Buckfastleigh Town Council. The Heritage Rolling Stock Conservation Centre will be sited at the north end of Buckfastleigh station on what the railway calls the ‘head-shunt and loop spur’, parallel to the A38…

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THE Colne Valley Railway (CVR) has successfully bid for a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) award of £1,757,200. The bumper cash award comes after the railway faced potential eviction from its Castle Hedingham site some 19 months ago. The news of the grant on December 1 will have come as a blessed relief to the CVR’s…

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FOLLOWING its successful visit to the Dartmoor Railway last Christmas the Pioneer Diesel Locomotive Group’s (PDLG) Class 45 No. 45060 Sherwood Forester has returned to the Devon railway for the winter’s ‘Polar Express’ trains. This time around it was accompanied by the group’s ‘Crompton’, No. 33035. The two Sulzers travelled in convoy behind Devon & Cornwall Railways’…

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CARDIFF Bay station’s Grade II-listed station building is to get a new lease of life as the home of a military museum, thanks to a £2million Government investment. While Cardiff Bay (still known to many by its GWR title of Cardiff Bute Road) still serves as the terminus of short Butetown branch, its historic and…

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LONDON’S Waterloo station remains Britain’s busiest with annual passenger numbers topping the 99million mark. The actual figure, as measured by ticket entries and exits, reached 99,148,388 for 2015/16, while Clapham Junction has replaced Charing Cross in the Top 10 most-used stations within London with 32,2282,220 entries and exits. As might be expected, nine of the Top…

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THE latest addition to Scotland’s railway map – Edinburgh Gateway – was officially opened on December 9. The country’s Transport Minister Humza Yousaf carried out the opening duties, two days prior to the station welcoming its first passengers. The £41million tram/train interchange has been constructed on the western side of Edinburgh to provide easy access…

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