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NEW GENERATION LINES NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: Hot rocks, burning coals; the rise of a new northern star
As the Weardale Railway in County Durham prepares for its official launch on July 17, Robin Jones examines its potential to regenerate an area of high unemployment and social deprivation once again hit hard by the closure of heavy industry. In an area renowned throughout the world as the cradle of railways, can steam work a second economic miracle?
INDUSTRIAL SCENE
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: Chasewater: its day has arrived!
One of Britain's first three standard gauge heritage schemes to be launched back in 1959, the Chasewater Railway has for long been dismissed as a preservation backwater. All that has now changed, as a compensation package following the building of Britain's first toll motorway has given the line magnificent state-of-the art facilities, an extension and a dazzling future which will see main line locomotives running and even double track laid, Robin Jones discovers.
MAIN LINE NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Main line steam: back to the future?
As first reported in Heritage Railway last month, EWS has announced a tightening of its policy under which it is prepared to run steam charters, largely in response to a series of recent failures on the national network. But is it a beginning of the end of main line steam, as many linesiders will undoubtedly fear, or, as more informed opinion in the rail industry has it, a logical business plan to ensure a workable future for steam?
D-DAY LOUGHBOROUGH!
Robin Jones visits an outstanding World War Two re-enactment weekend at Quorn & Woodhouse station, which had one of the marshalling yards used to amass military hardware in readiness for the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6 1944.
WHAT'S LEFT OF ... the London & South Western Railway?
With its origins in the London & Southampton Railway in 1830, the LSWR stretched out across almost the whole of Southern England where it became the principal rival to the GWR. Brian Sharpe and Robin Jones delve in to the surviving legacy of the pre-Grouping company.
THE CHANGEOVER YEARS: Triumph against adversity: the revival of the Kent & East Sussex Railway
It is now half a century since the last regular BR passenger trains on the KESR ran, and 30 years since revivalists reopened a section of the line. Gerard Siviour looks back at the mountainous obstacles which hampered the takeover of the line in the sixties and nearly killed off its re-emergence.
CHURNET MEETS GC!
The winning entries from our photographic competition based around the Great Central Railway Robinson 04's first visit to the Churnet Valley Railway.
HEADLINE NEWS
Mid-Hants Railway engineering manager Clive Holliday axed without warning; Bluebell Railway may get its first diesel; fresh dates, timings and ticket prices for National Railway Museum's Flying Scotsman trips from York to Scarborough; second Ongar group may bid for line; Deltic 9000 Locomotives Ltd. ceases trading; Union of South Africa failed at Ealing Broadway with blown gland; Stephen Middleton's NER petrol-electric pioneer railcar readied for North Yorkshire Moors Railway debut; Southall group may reopen railway centre and first steam on Wensleydale Railway.
NEWS
Full report on Railfest 2004; last British industrial steam engine repatriated; lack of steam scuppers ELR gala; airgun sniper stops Welsh Highland services; US modelmaker Lionel hit by $40m penalty for 'stolen designs; Ashorne Hall railway for sale; auto-train runs again in the Forest of Dean; KESR extension detailed plans unveiled; Irish national transport museum plan derailed; Deltic Preservation Society takes National Collection Class 55; Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway bought by businessman; Scottish Executive blocks Royal Deeside station plan; Llangollen Railways exWoodham Bros. prairie steams back to scrapyard site - and shunts 'Barry Ten'; top national restoration awards for Barrow Hill pioneer Mervyn Allcock and North Norfolk brothers; 'Yankee tank' set for East Somerset Railway debut and Edward Thomas runs again on Talyllyn Railway as itself are among the many headline-grabbing stories in the widest news coverage of the preservation scene by far. Is your line featured this month?
SHOWCASE
Duchess of Sutherland, captured by John Shuttleworth storming past Low Gill takes centre stage in our stunning selection from Britain's top lineside photographers.
MAIN LINE TOUR ITINERARY Brian Sharpe's guide to steam and modern traction tours.
MAIN LINE NEWS compiled by Cedric Johns
Earl Bathurst replaces King on 'Torbay Express' roster; Tangmere halted by air pump failure; 'Sunny South Special' revives seaside heydays; 'Dalesman' to start from KWVR and Duke of Gloucester comeback delay latest are among the top stories in Britain's best main line news pages.
SCALE HERITAGE RAILWAY
A new County, Castle and King from Hornby, plus the reappearance of the Class 47s in XP64 and Riviera Trains liveries - and a blood-and-custard auto-coach.
PLATFORM
The page where your views matter the most.
UP AND RUNNING
Brian Sharpe's listing of operational standard, narrow and minimum gauge lines with dates of special events, details of driver training courses and locomotives in operation.
HERITAGE NET
Roger Melton trawls websites for information on GWR pannier tanks.
As the Weardale Railway in County Durham prepares for its official launch on July 17, Robin Jones examines its potential to regenerate an area of high unemployment and social deprivation once again hit hard by the closure of heavy industry. In an area renowned throughout the world as the cradle of railways, can steam work a second economic miracle?
INDUSTRIAL SCENE
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: Chasewater: its day has arrived!
One of Britain's first three standard gauge heritage schemes to be launched back in 1959, the Chasewater Railway has for long been dismissed as a preservation backwater. All that has now changed, as a compensation package following the building of Britain's first toll motorway has given the line magnificent state-of-the art facilities, an extension and a dazzling future which will see main line locomotives running and even double track laid, Robin Jones discovers.
MAIN LINE NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Main line steam: back to the future?
As first reported in Heritage Railway last month, EWS has announced a tightening of its policy under which it is prepared to run steam charters, largely in response to a series of recent failures on the national network. But is it a beginning of the end of main line steam, as many linesiders will undoubtedly fear, or, as more informed opinion in the rail industry has it, a logical business plan to ensure a workable future for steam?
D-DAY LOUGHBOROUGH!
Robin Jones visits an outstanding World War Two re-enactment weekend at Quorn & Woodhouse station, which had one of the marshalling yards used to amass military hardware in readiness for the D-Day landings in Normandy on June 6 1944.
WHAT'S LEFT OF ... the London & South Western Railway?
With its origins in the London & Southampton Railway in 1830, the LSWR stretched out across almost the whole of Southern England where it became the principal rival to the GWR. Brian Sharpe and Robin Jones delve in to the surviving legacy of the pre-Grouping company.
THE CHANGEOVER YEARS: Triumph against adversity: the revival of the Kent & East Sussex Railway
It is now half a century since the last regular BR passenger trains on the KESR ran, and 30 years since revivalists reopened a section of the line. Gerard Siviour looks back at the mountainous obstacles which hampered the takeover of the line in the sixties and nearly killed off its re-emergence.
CHURNET MEETS GC!
The winning entries from our photographic competition based around the Great Central Railway Robinson 04's first visit to the Churnet Valley Railway.
HEADLINE NEWS
Mid-Hants Railway engineering manager Clive Holliday axed without warning; Bluebell Railway may get its first diesel; fresh dates, timings and ticket prices for National Railway Museum's Flying Scotsman trips from York to Scarborough; second Ongar group may bid for line; Deltic 9000 Locomotives Ltd. ceases trading; Union of South Africa failed at Ealing Broadway with blown gland; Stephen Middleton's NER petrol-electric pioneer railcar readied for North Yorkshire Moors Railway debut; Southall group may reopen railway centre and first steam on Wensleydale Railway.
NEWS
Full report on Railfest 2004; last British industrial steam engine repatriated; lack of steam scuppers ELR gala; airgun sniper stops Welsh Highland services; US modelmaker Lionel hit by $40m penalty for 'stolen designs; Ashorne Hall railway for sale; auto-train runs again in the Forest of Dean; KESR extension detailed plans unveiled; Irish national transport museum plan derailed; Deltic Preservation Society takes National Collection Class 55; Giant's Causeway & Bushmills Railway bought by businessman; Scottish Executive blocks Royal Deeside station plan; Llangollen Railways exWoodham Bros. prairie steams back to scrapyard site - and shunts 'Barry Ten'; top national restoration awards for Barrow Hill pioneer Mervyn Allcock and North Norfolk brothers; 'Yankee tank' set for East Somerset Railway debut and Edward Thomas runs again on Talyllyn Railway as itself are among the many headline-grabbing stories in the widest news coverage of the preservation scene by far. Is your line featured this month?
SHOWCASE
Duchess of Sutherland, captured by John Shuttleworth storming past Low Gill takes centre stage in our stunning selection from Britain's top lineside photographers.
MAIN LINE TOUR ITINERARY Brian Sharpe's guide to steam and modern traction tours.
MAIN LINE NEWS compiled by Cedric Johns
Earl Bathurst replaces King on 'Torbay Express' roster; Tangmere halted by air pump failure; 'Sunny South Special' revives seaside heydays; 'Dalesman' to start from KWVR and Duke of Gloucester comeback delay latest are among the top stories in Britain's best main line news pages.
SCALE HERITAGE RAILWAY
A new County, Castle and King from Hornby, plus the reappearance of the Class 47s in XP64 and Riviera Trains liveries - and a blood-and-custard auto-coach.
PLATFORM
The page where your views matter the most.
UP AND RUNNING
Brian Sharpe's listing of operational standard, narrow and minimum gauge lines with dates of special events, details of driver training courses and locomotives in operation.
HERITAGE NET
Roger Melton trawls websites for information on GWR pannier tanks.
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