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  • Railway Accidents: Lamentable Failures

    Railway Accidents: Lamentable Failures

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Thirty-one people lost their lives on Tuesday, October 5, 1999, when a Thames Trains Class 165 ‘Turbo’ collided with a First Great Western InterCity125 at a combined speed of 130mph at Ladbroke Grove, two miles from London Paddington. Fraser Pithie and The Railway Magazine look back over 20 years to one of Britain’s worst post-Privatisation…

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  • Three Type 3s – to the sea!

    Three Type 3s – to the sea!

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THREE Class 37s at the head of a heavy freight train used to be a regular sight in South Wales and around Glasgow in BR days, but such a trio has always been a rare event on passenger trains.  On August 11, the Branch Line Society completed its two-day ‘Type 3 to the Sea’ trip…

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  • Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled

    Bath Green Park: Historic station myths dispelled

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Mike Arlett clears up the still-perpetuated myth that the Midland Railway had first opened a branch line from Mangotsfield to a temporary terminus in Bath.

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  • Lazarus Locomotives: A Clan for all season

    Lazarus Locomotives: A Clan for all season

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    Sam Hewitt

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    One of the most exciting new-build steam locomotive projects is that to recreate a BR ‘Clan’. Robert Ife, commercial director of the Standard Steam Locomotive Company, brings readers up to speed with progress, and the next stages.  POSSIBLY not all readers will have heard of The ‘Clan’ Project, one of the many new-build steam projects…

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  • ELR’s Type 2 back in action after lengthy overhaul

    ELR’s Type 2 back in action after lengthy overhaul

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    Sam Hewitt

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    CLASS 24 No. D5054 Phil Southern returned to traffic during the East Lancashire Railway’s (ELR) Sulzer Theme Day on February 16.  It has undergone a heavy overhaul over the past nine years, which included a generator overhaul, to avoid failure, as well as attention to the bogies and power unit. Following completion, repaint in BR green…

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