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  • ‘Shakespeare Express’ 2019 season underway

    ‘Shakespeare Express’ 2019 season underway

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Vintage Trains reintroduced its popular ‘Shakespeare Express’ between Birmingham Snow Hill and Stratford-upon-Avon on July 21.  Two return trips per day will operate on August 4, August 18, September 1 and September 15, with BR ‘Castle’ No. 7029 Clun Castle taking charge, except on August 4 when ex-LMS ‘Jubilee’ No. 45596 Bahamas is booked to…

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  • Preservation history made at Welsh Highland gala

    Preservation history made at Welsh Highland gala

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    Sam Hewitt

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    FFESTINIOG & Welsh Highland Railway’s (Ff&WHR) June 21-23 Welsh Highland Railway – Past, Present and Future gala title referenced the 21st anniversary of Ff&WHR trains running out of Caernarfon and the newly opened station building at the terminus.  However, this gala carried much greater significance for the ‘future’ element. That relations between Ff&WHR and Welsh…

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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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  • Steam returns to Drumshanbo… on the back of a lorry!

    Steam returns to Drumshanbo… on the back of a lorry!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AVONSIDE 0-6-0T Nancy once again flew the flag for the Dromod-based Cavan & Leitrim Railway (C&LR) on June 30 when it took part in the opening parade of the An Tóstal festival at Drumshanbo, County Leitrim.  The visit followed Nancy’s starring role in the Ballinamore Family Vintage event earlier in the month.  During the parade…

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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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  • Glyder returns to steam

    Glyder returns to steam

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    Sam Hewitt

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    GRAHAM Morris’ Andrew Barclay 0-4-0WT Glyder (1994/1931) steamed for the first time since 1965 on June 19 at Beamish. It was originally supplied to Durham County Water Board (DCWB) to work on the dam contract at Burnhope in Weardale in the early-1930s, where it was named Grey.  At the end of the contract it was…

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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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  • Dartmouth’s Goliath regains its boiler at Cranmore works

    Dartmouth’s Goliath regains its boiler at Cranmore works

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    Sam Hewitt

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    OVERHAUL of the Dartmouth Steam Railway’s GWR 2-8-0T No. 5239 Goliath by the East Somerset Railway reached a key stage on July 23 when the loco’s No. 4 boiler was reunited with the frames. Re-tubing of the boiler was completed at the end of May and, following a successful hydraulic test on June 14, it…

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  • West Somerset Mogul 9351 returns to front-line service after overhaul at Williton

    West Somerset Mogul 9351 returns to front-line service after overhaul at Williton

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE loss of on-hire No. 7802 Bradley Manor with a damaged cylinder casting (see separate story on p71) has been tempered somewhat for the West Somerset Railway with the return to service of 2-6-0 No. 9351. The GWR-inspired Mogul has been overhauled over a six-month period by the West Somerset Railway Association (WSRA) at Williton, and was…

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  • Main line Travelling Post Office run to mark 85th anniversary of Night Mail?

    Main line Travelling Post Office run to mark 85th anniversary of Night Mail?

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    Sam Hewitt

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    “THIS is the Night Mail crossing the border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order…” W H Auden’s opening lines to 1936’s evocative GPO documentary film Night Mail about the work of the Travelling Post Office (TPO) are known by thousands, and to many conjure images of Fowler 4-6-0s on the West Coast Mail Line,…

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