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38 A PROPER JOB
The public unveiling of GWR steam railmotor No 93 at Didcot on 28 May will mark completion of the first phase of perhaps the most remarkable project in British railway preservation. Adrian Knowles charts the 18-year story that has resulted in a restoration of exceptional quality.
48 GREAT WESTERN MAIN LINE
The Great Western Railway system includes the last of Britaina€ s major inter-city routes not to have been visually disfigured by electrification. While economic uncertainty may cause a delay, the overhead wires will come sooner than later. Andrew Bell presents a selection of views of steam on the GWR in recent years, at locations which could be transformed within the foreseeable future.
64 PLOUGHS TO THE RESCUE!
Recent snowfalls across the country have frequently been claimed to have been the worst for 40 years. That may well be so but in 2010 it would have been so much worse had the snowfall been accompanied by gale force winds as Maurice Burns witnessed in 1963. His local Esk Valley branch, now used by the NYMR, was the subject of a huge snowdrift 250 foot long and 15 foot deep that blocked the line and it was six steam locomotives and the last remaining NER wooden snowploughs that came to the rescue.
70 STEAMa€ S INDIAN SUMMER 2010
Railway author and photographer Geoff Silcock reviews a busy and epic autumn for photographic charters and their participants towards the last few months of 2010.
80 DRIVING IN AN ISLAND PARADISE
A railway enthusiast since childhood, Eric Hayman, now 69, went on holiday to the Pacific island of Viti Levu, Fiji, and unbeknown by his wife Joyce, who was one of the passengers, ended up driving a classic diesel on a tourist train over one of the routes of the islanda€ s extensive sugar cane rail network.
82 A STEAM RIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES
Shenton station stands on the edge of Bosworth Battlefield in Leicestershire. It is part of the old Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway, and is now used as the southern terminus of the heritage railway known as the Battlefield Line Railway. Paul Taylor reports on the startling revelation that the adjacent historic battlefield was not fought quite where it has always been assumed to have been.
86 JURASSIC PIER
David Staines outlines the history and current operation of the Hythe Pier Tramway, a remarkable survivor from the days regarded as pre-Grouping, which is still carrying heavy traffic today.
88 DEVELOPING A MODERN LOCOMOTIVE BOILER
With 30 years of boiler design experience in industry, Alan Haigh C.Eng.M.I.Mech.E. asks if ita€ s time to move away from traditional stayed firebox design and embrace water tube technology.
Regulars
6 HEADLINE NEWS
Heritage Railway launches appeal to buy cylinders for Betton Grange: Tornado a€~back in Maya€ ; Flying Scotsman invited to Australia, Welsh Assembly gives Llangollen Railway Ã
38 A PROPER JOB
The public unveiling of GWR steam railmotor No 93 at Didcot on 28 May will mark completion of the first phase of perhaps the most remarkable project in British railway preservation. Adrian Knowles charts the 18-year story that has resulted in a restoration of exceptional quality.
48 GREAT WESTERN MAIN LINE
The Great Western Railway system includes the last of Britaina€ s major inter-city routes not to have been visually disfigured by electrification. While economic uncertainty may cause a delay, the overhead wires will come sooner than later. Andrew Bell presents a selection of views of steam on the GWR in recent years, at locations which could be transformed within the foreseeable future.
64 PLOUGHS TO THE RESCUE!
Recent snowfalls across the country have frequently been claimed to have been the worst for 40 years. That may well be so but in 2010 it would have been so much worse had the snowfall been accompanied by gale force winds as Maurice Burns witnessed in 1963. His local Esk Valley branch, now used by the NYMR, was the subject of a huge snowdrift 250 foot long and 15 foot deep that blocked the line and it was six steam locomotives and the last remaining NER wooden snowploughs that came to the rescue.
70 STEAMa€ S INDIAN SUMMER 2010
Railway author and photographer Geoff Silcock reviews a busy and epic autumn for photographic charters and their participants towards the last few months of 2010.
80 DRIVING IN AN ISLAND PARADISE
A railway enthusiast since childhood, Eric Hayman, now 69, went on holiday to the Pacific island of Viti Levu, Fiji, and unbeknown by his wife Joyce, who was one of the passengers, ended up driving a classic diesel on a tourist train over one of the routes of the islanda€ s extensive sugar cane rail network.
82 A STEAM RIDE TO THE MIDDLE AGES
Shenton station stands on the edge of Bosworth Battlefield in Leicestershire. It is part of the old Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway, and is now used as the southern terminus of the heritage railway known as the Battlefield Line Railway. Paul Taylor reports on the startling revelation that the adjacent historic battlefield was not fought quite where it has always been assumed to have been.
86 JURASSIC PIER
David Staines outlines the history and current operation of the Hythe Pier Tramway, a remarkable survivor from the days regarded as pre-Grouping, which is still carrying heavy traffic today.
88 DEVELOPING A MODERN LOCOMOTIVE BOILER
With 30 years of boiler design experience in industry, Alan Haigh C.Eng.M.I.Mech.E. asks if ita€ s time to move away from traditional stayed firebox design and embrace water tube technology.
Regulars
6 HEADLINE NEWS
Heritage Railway launches appeal to buy cylinders for Betton Grange: Tornado a€~back in Maya€ ; Flying Scotsman invited to Australia, Welsh Assembly gives Llangollen Railway Ã
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