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SRPS Railtours: Forth Bridge and Borders Steam Specials

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Sam Hewitt

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26th June 2019

SRPS Railtours is organising steam specials on each Sunday in August 2019.
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No. 401: The peak of industrial locomotive development

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Sam Hewitt

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26th June 2019

No. 401, with surviving sister No. 403, are generally considered to represent the pinnacle of industrial steam locomotive design. They were part of a trio built for the Steel Company of Wales (SCOW) for its Abbey, Margam and Port Talbot works, where they would be evaluated alongside three new six-coupled diesel electric locomotives, which had…
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Ffestiniog Travel: Go east for an Asian Rail Adventure

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Sam Hewitt

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26th June 2019

INTEREST in rail tours to far-flung places continues to be popular as train travel offers the means to see as much of a country as possible in the timeframe of a holiday. Specialist rail tour operator Ffestiniog Travel is capitalising on this trend by going east and combining exotic destinations, interesting cultures and sightseeing with…
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Corwen opening on target as Llangollen fills embankment ‘Gap’ to complete trackbed

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Sam Hewitt

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25th June 2019

THE Llangollen Railway is another step closer having trains able to run into its new Corwen Central station following the filling of the ‘Gap’ in the embankment immediately east of the station site. After six solid days’ effort by contractor and volunteers, the northern batter (boundary) of the embankment was completed on May 14. About…
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‘Q6’ becomes ‘T2’ after North Eastern identity is restored

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Sam Hewitt

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25th June 2019

THE North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) relaunched its Raven ‘Q6’ 0-8-0 No. 63395 on May 1 as North Eastern Railway ‘T2’ No. 2238 – all part of the locomotive’s centenary year commemorations. The transformation has included repainting the loco into the NER livery the locomotive carried when it emerged from Darlington Works in December 1918. The…
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Bahamas and Rocket take centre stage at open weekend

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Sam Hewitt

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25th June 2019

STANIER ‘Jubilee’ No. 45596 Bahamas will be returning to the Midlands this month as the star exhibit at the Tyseley Locomotive Works/Vintage Trains open weekend on June 22-23. No. 45596 made its public debut at the Tyseley open weekend last September upon completion of its Heritage Lottery-funded overhaul, but since its main line trials and subsequent…
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Mid-Hants ‘S15’ ready for comeback after almost two decades on the sidelines

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Sam Hewitt

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24th June 2019

URIE Locomotive Society-owned ‘S15’ No. 506 has steamed at the Mid-Hants Railway ahead of an imminent return to service. The Eastleigh-built 4-6-0 last ran in 2001, and since then has received extensive boiler repairs along with a comprehensive bottom-end overhaul. This work has included the removal and replacement of the front bufferbeam, and attention to corroded…
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Tyseley to launch project to complete ‘Bloomer’ replica

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Sam Hewitt

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24th June 2019

TYSELEY Locomotive Works, together with Vintage Trains (VT), will use this month’s open weekend as a platform to launch a new project to complete its London & North Western Railway (LNWR) ‘Bloomer’ 2-2-2 No. 670. Work on the James McConnell-designed Single began in 1986 and reached an advanced stage of construction (no driving wheelset), but other…
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Braking trials pave way for ‘Q’ class 70mph running

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Sam Hewitt

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24th June 2019

A series of braking trials for the RPSI’s Great Northern Railway (Ireland) ‘Q’ 4-4-0 No. 131 were completed during the early hours of April 7, which could clear the loco for 70mph running in Northern Ireland. The tests took place on the Antrim line, near Templepatrick, where the loco and train of Mk2 stock was accelerated…
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Isle of Wight-style bunker for KESR ‘Terrier’ No. 2678

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Sam Hewitt

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23rd June 2019

Kent & East Sussex Railway-based ‘A1X’ 0-6-0T No. 32678 will receive the larger Isle-of Wight-type bunker.
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