Britain's Best-Selling Rail Title

Subscribe
The Hub Logo

Britain's Best-Selling Rail Title

Subscribe
Buy Latest Issue

Hunslet

  • THE IVO PETERS COLLECTION – VOLUME 4 RAILWAY ARCHIVE: NORTH WALES NARROW GAUGE STEAM 1959-1960

    THE IVO PETERS COLLECTION – VOLUME 4 RAILWAY ARCHIVE: NORTH WALES NARROW GAUGE STEAM 1959-1960

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    THIS is the latest DVD from the Ivo Peters Railway Archive Collection. Volume 4 features North Wales Narrow Gauge Steam, recorded on high quality 16mm colour film, from nearly 60 years ago.  Though the programme was originally released on VHS in 1988 the material has been totally re-mastered for DVD.  And what a fascinating feast…

    Continue reading »

  • GKN-liveried Jessie enters Blaenavon line service

    GKN-liveried Jessie enters Blaenavon line service

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    Former Cardiff resident Hunslet 0-6-0ST Jessie (1873/1937) joined the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway’s (P&BR) operational fleet on April 19 following overhaul and conversion back to its original guise by owner Mike Pearce at the Barry Tourist Railway.  As reported (RM April), Jessie has been stripped of its former ‘Thomas’ guise, losing the side tanks, and…

    Continue reading »

  • Statfold Barn Railway opens new season

    Statfold Barn Railway opens new season

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    STATFOLD Barn Railway’s first enthusiasts’ open day of the new season on March 23 featured 15 locos in steam, 13 from the home fleet, plus War Office Locomotive Trust’s Hunslet 4-6-0T WDLR No. 303 (all 2ft gauge) and 18in-gauge Hunslet 0-4-0WT Jack (684/1898).  The Goose railbus and 3ft-gauge Burton & Ashby tram also operated. The line also…

    Continue reading »

  • Didcot’s diesel shunter clocks up 40 years’ service

    Didcot’s diesel shunter clocks up 40 years’ service

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    A SMALL celebration was held on December 29 to mark the 40th anniversary of Hunslet 5238 of 1957 – a 264bhp 0-6-0DM, now known as No. DL 26 – arriving at the Didcot Railway Centre.  A cake was cut by former Great Western Society locomotive manager Ron Head, who had arranged the purchase of the locomotive.  He…

    Continue reading »

  • A Phoenix from the Ashes

    A Phoenix from the Ashes

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    If ever a place deserved to rise from the ashes, then it is Sierra Leone’s National Railway Museum (SLNRM). Nicola Fox tells the fascinating history of a museum, whose locomotives were less than a week from being scrapped, plus its on-going British connections. On the western coast of Africa lies a small country with a…

    Continue reading »

  • Chasewater to commemorate closure of Littleton Colliery

    Chasewater to commemorate closure of Littleton Colliery

    by

    Sam Hewitt

    –

    STAFFORDSHIRE’S long heritage of deep coal mining finally came to an end on December 3, 1993 when Littleton Colliery closed, the last mine in the Cannock Chase Coalfield.  A little more than 25 years later, the Chasewater Railway (CR) will mark the anniversary with a Littleton-themed weekend on April 6-7. The commemorative event will tie…

    Continue reading »

Latest Issue

Subscribe
Buy Latest Issue

Next Issue On Sale:

Loading data…

Free Digital Issue

Search

Tags

ASLEF Avanti West Coast British Railways COVID-19 Department for Transport Editor's Intro EMU Flying Scotsman From the archive Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway Great Central Railway Great Western Railway GWR Heritage Railway HS2 Irish Latest issue Latest issue RM Letters LNER London Underground Mortons Books narrow gauge National Railway Museum Network NETWORK RAIL News North Yorkshire Moors Railway Office of Rail and Road Rail Express Rail strikes Railway Round-Up Railways Illustrated RMT ScotRail Severn Valley Railway South Western Railway Sponsored Content steam The Railway Hub The Railway Magazine Trams TransPennine Express Transport for London West Somerset Railway