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Tag: Black Five

‘Black Fives’ back in the Hope Valley

8th January 2020 Sam Hewitt Network, News, Railtours, Steam

IAN Riley’s Stanier ‘Black Five’ duo of Nos. 44871 and 45407 pass through the remains of the old Masborough station with the Railway Touring Company’s ‘South Yorkshireman’ on November 3.  The tour, which replaced a previously

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Shaw Savill to steam again after restoration begins at Heywood

12th October 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

ONE of preservation’s forgotten locomotives – ‘Merchant Navy’ Pacific No. 35009 Shaw Savill – is being restored for main line operation by owner Ian Riley at his Heywood works, near Bury.  Mr Riley bought the rebuilt

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VIDEO: Hornby Margate open weekend

25th September 2019 Gareth Evans Miniature, Modelling, Video

There were smiles all-round in a corner of Margate over the weekend of August 17-18 as the doors were opened to Hornby’s spiritual home.

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

26th August 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

“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

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Luxury dining trains’ brief encounter in Kent

2nd July 2019 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Electric, Network, News, Railtours, Steam

THERE was brief chance to see two of Britain’s luxury dining trains together on May 11, writes David Staines.  ‘Black Five’ No. 44871 was recessed at Lenham Loop with the 12.50 Maidstone East-Folkestone West ‘Heart of

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‘K1’ joins Stanier pair for ‘Jacobite’ summer season

2nd July 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Railtours, Steam

APRIL 19 saw the start of the 2019 operating season for West Coast Railways’ ‘Jacobite’ trains.  Two of Ian Riley’s Stanier ‘Black Five’ 4-6-0s moved north from Carnforth to Fort William on April 16, with

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Telly alert – Moors on Channel 5

9th May 2019 Gareth Evans Diesel, News, Steam

Channel 5’s television programme about the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) will air on Friday, May 17 at 8pm. Season two of ‘The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard’ will include six episodes, which will go

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‘Northern Belle’ hired for Kent Hospice charity trip

28th November 2018 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

HEART of Kent Hospice is chartering the ‘Northern Belle’ on May 11, 2019 for a steam-hauled lunchtime excursion through the Kent countryside. A Stanier ‘Black Five’ 4-6-0 from the West Coast Railway Co pool will

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