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  • Single-chimney ‘9F’ ready for traffic at North Yorks

    Single-chimney ‘9F’ ready for traffic at North Yorks

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NEWLY restored BR ‘9F’ No. 92134 has steamed again at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Grosmont workshops, almost four decades after it left Barry Scrapyard for restoration. Howard Self’s single-chimney 2-10-0 was coupled to the borrowed ‘BR1G’ tender from Wansford-based ‘5MT’ No. 73050 City of Peterborough’ It was lit up for the first time on September 6…

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  • Bath conundrum

    Bath conundrum

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    Sam Hewitt

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    I enjoyed Mike Arlett’s articles on Bath Green Park in the August and September’s issues.  In particular, I was pleased to see the Ivo Peters’ photograph in the September article showing the departure of No. 568 on a Bournemouth train, and specifically No. 41902 preparing to leave on a local to Bristol St Philip’s.  One…

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  • Practice & Performance: Working at Wortley – 1952

    Practice & Performance: Working at Wortley – 1952

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Wortley Junction, west of Leeds, was a busy part of the network and had a complex layout. In an unorthodox Practice & Performance,  John Heaton FCILT recalls how the ’box was operated, as well as timings of workings on that route.  DUSK used to fall early on February afternoons in the northern industrial cities of…

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  • 3801 steams Down Under as overhaul nears completion

    3801 steams Down Under as overhaul nears completion

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    Sam Hewitt

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    AUSTRALIA’S most famous steam locomotive – ‘C38’ Pacific No. 3801 – steamed for the first time in more than a decade on September 16 as its protracted overhaul enters the ‘home straight’. It was a significant milestone for Transport Heritage New South Wales (THNSW) and the overhaul team at Eveleigh, coming just a week after the…

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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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  • GB Railfreight celebrates 15 years of Locomotion

    GB Railfreight celebrates 15 years of Locomotion

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    Sam Hewitt

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    GB Railfreight Class 66 No. 66788 was named Locomotion on September 21 as part of the celebrations to mark a decade and a half since the National Railway Museum opened its outstation in Shildon, County Durham. Bob Tiller, GBRf engineering director, said: “The work Locomotion does to showcase the history of the railways is an inspiration,…

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  • Network Rail submits plans for Forth Bridge experience

    Network Rail submits plans for Forth Bridge experience

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    Sam Hewitt

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    NETWORK Rail has submitted a planning application to City of Edinburgh Council for proposals to install a bridge walk and visitor hub at the Forth Bridge.  Under the plans, the public will be able to access the world-famous structure and explore its heritage as well as the outstanding views from a platform 367ft (110m) above…

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  • HS2 bill up to £88billion as completion date slips to 2040

    HS2 bill up to £88billion as completion date slips to 2040

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    Sam Hewitt

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    By Ben Jones HS2 Ltd has advised the Government the first phase of High Speed 2 to Birmingham could open five years later than planned in 2031, and the overall cost of the project could rise to £88billion. Phase 2b to Manchester and Leeds has also been pushed back, with completion now expected in 2040…

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  • RPSI cuts frames for new-build LMS-NCC ‘W’ class Mogul

    RPSI cuts frames for new-build LMS-NCC ‘W’ class Mogul

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    Sam Hewitt

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    THE first steps in the re-creation of one of H P Stewart’s LMS-NCC ‘W’ class 2-6-0 have been taken by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) with the cutting of the locomotive’s 33ft-long main frame plates. The machined plates were delivered to Whitehead on August 29 from Cooke Bros Engineering of Newtownards, having been…

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  • Island Line to remain in rail franchising system after four-year battle

    Island Line to remain in rail franchising system after four-year battle

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    Sam Hewitt

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    Vivarail trains for Isle of Wight as part of £26m investment by Phil Marsh THE unique Island Line will remain a heavy rail-operated route thanks to an investment worth £26million to cover new trains, a new passing loop, new platform height, and other infrastructure changes.  The news comes at the end of a four-and-a-half year…

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