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  • DfT decision on Island Line future deferred for three months

    DfT decision on Island Line future deferred for three months

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Phil Marsh THE Department of Transport has extended a deadline for South Western Railway’s (SWR) plan to transform the operation of the Island Line on the Isle of Wight (IoW). One of the franchise conditions of SWR taking over the loss-making Island Line was to work with the Isle of Wight Council and Isle…

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  • ODIN returns to Danish railways

    ODIN returns to Danish railways

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    Sam Hewitt

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    IN September the Danish National Railway Museum in Odense presented the new working replica of Denmark’s first steam loco – ODIN. The original was a 2-2-2, built in 1846 by Sharp Brothers and Company in Manchester, and named after the Norse God. ODIN was built for the opening of the line between Copenhagen and Roskilde…

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  • ‘Polar Express’ delights Birmingham crowds

    ‘Polar Express’ delights Birmingham crowds

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VINTAGE Trains (VT) operated its first ‘Polar Express’ trains between Birmingham Moor Street and Tyseley from November 29 until December 23. VT used GWR ‘Hall’ No. 4965 Rood Ashton Hall, temporarily carrying the classic GWR name Polar Star. No. 4965 carried the characteristic headlight on its smokebox door as seen in the animated movie which inspired…

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  • ‘Union’ on home ground after southern adventures

    ‘Union’ on home ground after southern adventures

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    Sam Hewitt

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    John Cameron’s ‘A4’ No. 60009 Union of South Africa visited destinations as far apart as Plymouth, London and Edinburgh towards the end of 2018. On December 8 it was on familiar territory with a Railway Touring Company Christmas markets excursion from York to Edinburgh and return. The train worked north over the East Coast Main Line…

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  • West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes

    West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes

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    Sam Hewitt

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    It was opened in 1965 as a normal, steam-operated 9½in-gauge railway.

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  • Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

    Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…

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  • New boiler for Darent

    New boiler for Darent

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    Sam Hewitt

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    A NEW boiler barrel is being built for Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway’s (H&KWR) resident steam loco Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Darent. The chassis is undergoing overhaul at London Museum of Water & Steam (RM Oct), withthe boiler having been sent to A G Bicknell & Co Ltd for assessment and repair. The smokebox, front tube…

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  • Russell steams to Beddgelert

    Russell steams to Beddgelert

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE WELSH Highland Heritage Railway’s (WHHR) Hunslet 2-6-2T Russell made an historic trip from its Gelert’s Farm base onto Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) metals to steam to Beddgelert on November 25. This was the first time Russell had steamed over the Porthmadog to Beddgelert section of WHR since 1937. Russell hauled replica North Wales Narrow…

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  • Eustace Forth returns to North Yorkshire

    Eustace Forth returns to North Yorkshire

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    Sam Hewitt

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    ROBERT Stephenson & Hawthorns 0-4-0ST No. 15 Eustace Forth (7063/1942) made a sort of homecoming to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) in late-November after being hired in for steam heating duties. The former CEGB loco was resident on the line for a short time from 1972. It arrived direct from hire at Locomotion in Shildon,…

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  • Busy winter scheduled for Middleton Railway workshop

    Busy winter scheduled for Middleton Railway workshop

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    Sam Hewitt

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    VOLUNTEERS at the Middleton Railway (MR) will be kept busy this coming winter as the Leeds line works to complete a number of mechanical and engineering projects during the pre-season ‘quiet’ spell. Top of the list is finishing the overhaul of ex-LNER Sentinel 4wVBT No. 8837 (BR No. 68153), which is now in the final stages at…

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