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  • Recreating the Spurn Bogie

    Recreating the Spurn Bogie

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    AS PART of the programme to celebrate the opening of the newly refurbished Spurn Lighthouse in Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust (YWT) is hoping to build a replica ‘Spurn sail bogie’. This unusual type of transport was used on the Spurn military railway between the two wars. To enable this to happen, the YWT is…

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  • Championing the underdog

    Championing the underdog

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    WHETHER it be politics, sport or whatever, it’s strange how everyone loves the underdog. Football is a case in point. For those who follow the ‘beautiful game’, a team considered mediocre and relatively unglamorous has suddenly been propelled into the limelight. Leicester City’s meteoric rise from bottom of the Premiership at the start of April…

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  • Farce on a Friday

    Farce on a Friday

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    IT’S a Friday afternoon, 20 minutes before the office closes when people begin to drift away for the weekend. The phone rings in the office of a railtour company hundreds of miles away. It’s Network Rail HQ, which says “sorry, but you cannot use Flying Scotsman on the new Borders Railway on Sunday as we…

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  • RM, DRS and Virgin plan third Class 37 charity special

    RM, DRS and Virgin plan third Class 37 charity special

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    AFTER the collaboration with Virgin Trains and DRS in running two successful charity special trains that have raised more than £50,000, a third train has been confirmed. ‘The Independent Yorkshireman’ has been planned for September 3 and will start at Chester hauled by a Class 57/3 calling at Crewe before running via Alsager and Stoke…

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  • Tickets on sale for Class 37 charity trip to Scarborough

    Tickets on sale for Class 37 charity trip to Scarborough

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    A look back to last year’s special to Bournemouth. MARK V PIKE TICKETS have gone on sale this morning for the third charity train The RM is running in conjunction with Virgin Trains and Direct Rail Services. Called ‘The Independent Yorkshireman’ , the excursion will run on September 3 and starting at Chester hauled by…

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