Penbryn Engineering of Hengoed, South Wales, is seeking a buyer for ex-Metropolitan Electric Supply Company Hawthorn Leslie 0-4-0ST Met (2800/1909). The forgotten loco was sent to the Hengoed works for restoration nearly 10 years ago,
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Running east to west through the heart of the country through rolling landscape is the Oxford to Hereford line. Stephen Roberts takes a trip over a route which operates with a mix of single- and
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When BR steam was in decline – and for some years afterwards – many enthusiasts turned their attention to industrial railways, where a number of collieries, steelworks and other complexes were worked by steam or
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Harry Needle Railroad Co has taken over the former DB Schenker wagon repair depot in Worksop
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PLASMOR Ltd continues to use a smart and well-maintained Fowler Class 422 0-4-0DH (4220038 of 1966) at its Heck Works, Great Heck, North Yorkshire. This is believed to be the last remaining Fowler-built diesel loco
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THE Foxfield Railway (FR) has set itself the target of completing the restoration of its unique Peckett ‘X2’ 0-6-0ST Ackton Hall No. 3 in time for the locomotive’s 100th anniversary in 2020. Identifying the amount of
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STAFFORDSHIRE’S long heritage of deep coal mining finally came to an end on December 3, 1993 when Littleton Colliery closed, the last mine in the Cannock Chase Coalfield. A little more than 25 years later,
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