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Tag: Gary Boyd Hope

Something ‘Wightwick’ this way comes as Bosworth line celebrates 50 golden years

21st November 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

“OVERWHELMED” and “speechless” were just two of the words used by Battlefield Line director Adrian Lock to describe the success of the Leicestershire line’s 50th anniversary gala on October 18-20. The Shackerstone Railway Society had

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Pitchford Hall creates Collett preservation ‘first’ after overhaul brings new livery

20th November 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

Epping Ongar Railway-based GWR ‘Hall’ No. 4953 Pitchford Hall is back in steam after overhaul, and carrying a livery never before seen on one of the Collett 4-6-0s in the preservation era.

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Military might: Looking back at Longmoor

12th October 2019 Sam Hewitt Features, Steam

October 31 marks 50 years since the closure of the Longmoor Military Railway in Hampshire. The army training line, known for its eye-catching blue-liveried locomotives and stock, came within a whisker of becoming a preservation

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Quiet progress has ‘Grange’ on coursefor 2020 debut

21st September 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

PROGRESS on the project to construct the 81st Collett ‘Grange’ – No. 6880 Betton Grange – continues at Tyseley and Llangollen, with a view to having the 4-6-0 in traffic next year. Work on the loco

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Restoration of former Barry Prairie continuing at Barry

10th April 2019 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

The project originally began at Llangollen, but the loco moved with Mr Pearce when he relocated to South Wales.

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Back from the brink

10th April 2019 Sam Hewitt Features, Steam

The West Somerset Railway (WSR) held a frank and honest briefing for members and shareholders on March 2, at which it laid out the problems it faces, and discussed the ways in which the WSR

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Lazarus Lines: Maam Cross – Ireland’s ‘quiet’ railway revival

6th March 2019 Sam Hewitt Features, Steam, World

Gary Boyd-Hope talks to Jim Deegan, the man behind the Connemara Railway Project, to find out more about his ambitious plans to return 5ft 3in-gauge steam to the wilds of County Galway by 2020. THE

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