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  • New dome completes 22-year restoration of Nancy at Dromod

    New dome completes 22-year restoration of Nancy at Dromod

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE restoration of the Cavan & Leitrim Railway’s Avonside 0-6-0T Nancy is officially complete after 22 years’ work and £160,000 investment.  The former ironstone loco returned to steam at Alan Keef’s Ross-on-Wye workshops in March, but was delivered to Dromod without its brass dome cover as this was still being manufactured by The Dorset Copperfish. …

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  • Fundraising success sees Wheldale overhaul begin

    Fundraising success sees Wheldale overhaul begin

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    Sam Hewitt

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    ONE of the last steam locomotives to work commercially in the UK – Hunslet ‘Austerity’ 0-6-0ST No. S134 Wheldale – is on the steam comeback thanks to the fundraising efforts of the locomotive’s support group. The Friends of Wheldale has raised in excess of £130,000 towards the cost of overhauling the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway…

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  • Rejuvenated NYMR Lambton Tank meets Peak Rail gala target

    Rejuvenated NYMR Lambton Tank meets Peak Rail gala target

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FORMER Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Kitson 0-6-2T No. 29 (4263/1904) managed to complete a short period of post-overhaul running-in at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway at the end of July to ensure it was fit to attend Peak Rail’s Mixed Traffic Gala on August 10-11.   The Lambton Locomotives Trust machine ran out of time…

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  • Rare ex-BR shunter still working at Worth Valley

    Rare ex-BR shunter still working at Worth Valley

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FORMER BR 0-6-0DM No. D2511 (Hudswell, Clarke No. D1202 of 1961)  – the only survivor of a class of 10 – serves as the yard pilot at Oxenhope, where it is seen on June 16. It was withdrawn from Barrow-in-Furness (12C) in December 1967 and passed to the National Coal Board’s Brodsworth Colliery, Doncaster the following…

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  • Lambton No. 29 set for NYMR return

    Lambton No. 29 set for NYMR return

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AN IMMINENT return to service is on the cards for Lambton, Hetton & Joicey Collieries Kitson 0-6-2T No. 29 (4263/1904) as its overhaul nears completion at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Grosmont works. The popular loco has been out of service since late-2014 when a crack was discovered in its cylinder block. A new cylinder…

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  • Lakeside’s Barclay steals the show at Foxfield gala

    Lakeside’s Barclay steals the show at Foxfield gala

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VISITING Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T No. 14 (1245/1911) certainly stole the show at the Foxfield Railway’s Summer Gala on July 20-21, recalling the heyday of the Scottish coalfields when these big Barclay tanks were a common sight on coal trains.  The former Carron Iron Company loco had made the journey to Staffordshire from its home at…

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  • Brookes No. 1 and Illingworth heading to Blaenavon line gala

    Brookes No. 1 and Illingworth heading to Blaenavon line gala

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway (P&BR) will pay tribute to the industrial locomotive manufacturers of Leeds later this summer with a special Built in Leeds gala on September 13-15. The event will centre around Mike Pearce’s Hunslet ‘48150’ class 0-6-0ST Jessie (1873/1937), which recently joined the P&BR fleet following its overhaul and return to East…

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  • GWR sheds make way for Old Oak Common hub

    GWR sheds make way for Old Oak Common hub

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Demolition of former Great Western Railway sheds at Old Oak Common, in west London, was completed in July.

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  • Resident steam loco leaves Purbeck for Westonzoyland

    Resident steam loco leaves Purbeck for Westonzoyland

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE 2ft-gauge vertical boiler steam loco constructed by Noel Donnelly (RM July 2018) and subsequently donated to Westonzoyland Engine Trust (RM Feb) arrived at the Somerset site on May 10 from its previous Purbeck Mineral & Mining Museum base. Initially described as an 0-4-0VBT, it has a chain drive and is thus a 4wVBT. It…

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  • Hope Works celebrates 90 years

    Hope Works celebrates 90 years

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    Sam Hewitt

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    MORE than 2,000 people visited Breedon Group’s cement works at Hope, in Derbyshire, as the UK’s largest cement plant celebrated 90 years of operation.  June 1 open day attractions at the Peak District plant included 0-6-0T industrial Nunlow, returning to its former home, and LNWR ‘Coal Tank’ No. 1054, as well as the resident ex-BR…

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