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Manx Heritage Transport Festival highlights

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Sam Hewitt

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27th September 2019

MARKING of the 125th anniversary of Manx Electric Railway (MER) services to Laxey during the July 24-28 Manx Heritage Transport Festival included trams running ‘as’ Nos. 3, 4, 8 and 24 – four original trams destroyed in the 1930 Laxey shed fire. The event also featured the return to service of trailers Nos. 37 and 49, following…
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Quintet steam at Threlkeld museum’s August gala

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Sam Hewitt

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27th September 2019

THRELKELD Quarry and Mining Museum’s July 27-28 Annual Steam Gala featured four guest steam locomotives. Bagnall 0-4-0ST Kidbrooke (2043/1917) from Yaxham Light Railway and Statfold Barn Railway trio Peckett 0-6-0ST Liassic (1632/1923), Kerr, Stuart ‘Wren’ 3128/1918 Roger and Hunslet 0-4-0ST Jack Lane (3904/2005) joined Threlkeld resident Bagnall 0-4-0ST Sir Tom for the event. The extended…
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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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New locomotive destined for Groudle Glen Railway

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Sam Hewitt

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18th April 2019

A new 2ft-gauge Bagnall ‘Sipat’-design 0-4-0ST locomotive is set for Groudle Glen Railway after its unveiling last month.
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Pontypool leases 16-tonners from Great Central Railway in 10-year deal

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Sam Hewitt

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18th February 2019

SURPLUS 16-ton mineral wagons from the Great Central Railway’s ‘Windcutter’ fleet have been given a new home at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway (P&BR). Six of the ex-BR wagons, which are not required for the GCR’s demonstration rake, arrived in South Wales on January 3, courtesy of the David Clarke Railway Trust. The wagons have…
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Bagnall

Manx Heritage Transport Festival highlights

Quintet steam at Threlkeld museum’s August gala

No. 401: The peak of industrial locomotive development

New locomotive destined for Groudle Glen Railway

Pontypool leases 16-tonners from Great Central Railway in 10-year deal

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