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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Tag: Nationalisation
There were other ‘Castle’ name changes
THANK you for the supplement sent with the March 2019 issue. Item 24 states the name Penrice Castle was carried by three separate members of the same class. That is true, but it also applies to eight other
Read moreFeature | Re-creating Ivatt’s LMS diesel pioneer
No. 10000 was withdrawn in 1963 and 10001 in 1966, and both were sent for scrapping in 1968.
Read moreWas a conflict of interest the reason for British Rails’s early reluctance to adopt diesel traction?
I REALLY enjoyed Bob Gwynne’s article in the December 2018 issue on the reluctance of British Railways in the early years after Nationalisation to continue the development of diesel traction pioneered by the private railway
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