DEVON’S 2ft 9in-gauge Seaton Tramway formally opened its new £3million terminus station at Seaton on
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125 years of narrow gauge Hunslet locos celebrated
Cliff Thomas reports on a special commemorative event which brought 19 Hunslet locomotives together in
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The Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway – A Pictorial View of the ‘Dukeries Route’ and Branches: Volume 2 – Langwith Junction to Lincoln and the Proposed Route to Sutton-on-Sea
By Chris Booth THIS excellent publication is Volume 2 of a projected comprehensive three-volume work
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Seaton Tramway opens new £3million headquarters
DEVON’S 2ft 9in-gauge Seaton Tramway formally opened its new £3million terminus station at Seaton on June 28 after 10 months of construction work. The new facility is a big departure from the Edwardian-style ticket office
Read moreMuseum to honour electric pioneer with new exhibition
MICHAEL Holroyd Smith, the pioneering inventor and father of the electric street tramway, will be commemorated in a new permanent exhibition at the National Tramway Museum (NTM) at Crich in Derbyshire. The museum has been
Read moreDarjeeling society marks its 20th anniversary at Beeches
THE Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Society celebrated its 20th anniversary with a steam event at Adrian Shooter’s private Beeches Light Railway on July 1. Mr Shooter’s Darjeeling Himalayan Railway (DHR) Sharp, Stewart B-Class 0-4-0STT (3518/1888) No. 19
Read moreBeddgelert return-to-steam appeal launched in style
FAIRBOURNE Railway has launched an appeal to finance the returning to steam of its 12¼in-gauge 0-6-4ST Beddgelert. The half-size loco was designed and built by David Curwen in 1979/80, and based on the long-scrapped North
Read moreEverything and anything goes at Talyllyn event
THE Talyllyn Railway marked the first occasion in many years that all of its steam and diesel locos were in working order with an Anything Goes event on June 16. Hughes 0-4-2ST No. 3 Sir Haydn
Read moreWar Office Hunslet makes steam debut
THE War Office Locomotive Trust’s ex-WDLR Hunslet 4-6-0T No. 303 (1215/1916) made its debut in steam at a private July 8 event at Statfold Barn Railway. The locomotive was bought in Australia in 2004 by The
Read moreBagnall takes starring role at Ketton cement open day
THE Chasewater Railway’s Bagnall 0-4-0ST Dunlop No. 6 spent the weekend of June 30-July 1 at Hanson Cement’s works at Ketton, Rutland, to take part in the works’ annual open day on the 30th.With the help
Read moreVeteran A No. 5 bows out at North Tyneside Railway
AGE finally caught up with the Stephenson Railway Museum’s (SRM) Kitson 0-6-0T A No. 5 (2509/1883) on July 6 when the veteran Consett Iron Company ‘long boiler’ loco was withdrawn for the foreseeable future. The
Read moreCavan’s Nancy ready for boiler
THE return of steam to Cavan & Leitrim Railway (C&L) metals could be just a few months away after the Dromod line’s Avonside 0-6-0T Nancy was returned to the workshops of Alan Keef Ltd at
Read moreDry weather curtails Merlin’s braking trials
THE Republic of Ireland’s hottest June and July in more than 40 years brought its own share of problems for Iarnród Éireann-Irish Rail, not least the suspension of services between Bray and Greystones on July
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