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26 NEXT STOP - MIDDLESBROUGH - Not content with being Britain's most popular heritage line in terms of passenger numbers, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway is set to expand again - this time by running steam trains to Middlesbrough. Robin Jones reports from Pickering.
34 SON OF SWINDON - The GWR's Swindon workshops were closed down in 1986, but out of the ashes sprang a successor to keep alive their renowned locomotive maintenance skills and traditions - in a lovely-restored colliery engine house in the Forest of Dean.
40 CLAN LINE - 25 YEARS BACK - Rebuilt Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line on April 24 celebrated 25 years running in private ownership on the main line. Des Sheppard looks at the success story of this popular locomotive which regularly hauls VSOE Pullman trains.
55 WIN YOUR OWN LIVE STEAM AUTO TRAIN! - Heritage Railway gives readers the chance not only to win a live steam engine of their own - but a complete train, thanks to Daventry-based locomotive builder Winson Engineering.
56 WE'RE IN A FINE MESH NOW - Peter Kelly visits Britain's only rack-and-pinion railway, the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and looks at its day-to-day mode of operation and future plans.
64 CARRIAGE & WAGON DEPARTMENT: HERITAGE ISLAND! - Not only does the Isle of Wight boast an unrivalled fleet of Victorian wooden-bodied branch line coaches, but a third-rail electric railway with vintage underground stock. Hugh Madgin visits both the Island Line and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
68 TALIESIN MAKES DEBUT AT RAILFFEST 99 - News special photo feature from the biggest narrow gauge event of the year, featuring the debut of Britain's newest steam locomotive, single Fairlie Taliesin.
80 BETWEEN TODAY & YESTERDAY: NORFOLK'S LOST ROUTE TO THE SEA - In conjunction with publisher The Nostalgia Collection, Robin Jones takes a look at the latter years of the Great Eastern Wells-Next-The-Sea branch and the remarkable progress now being made by the diesel-operated Mid-Norfolk Railway.
34 SON OF SWINDON - The GWR's Swindon workshops were closed down in 1986, but out of the ashes sprang a successor to keep alive their renowned locomotive maintenance skills and traditions - in a lovely-restored colliery engine house in the Forest of Dean.
40 CLAN LINE - 25 YEARS BACK - Rebuilt Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line on April 24 celebrated 25 years running in private ownership on the main line. Des Sheppard looks at the success story of this popular locomotive which regularly hauls VSOE Pullman trains.
55 WIN YOUR OWN LIVE STEAM AUTO TRAIN! - Heritage Railway gives readers the chance not only to win a live steam engine of their own - but a complete train, thanks to Daventry-based locomotive builder Winson Engineering.
56 WE'RE IN A FINE MESH NOW - Peter Kelly visits Britain's only rack-and-pinion railway, the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and looks at its day-to-day mode of operation and future plans.
64 CARRIAGE & WAGON DEPARTMENT: HERITAGE ISLAND! - Not only does the Isle of Wight boast an unrivalled fleet of Victorian wooden-bodied branch line coaches, but a third-rail electric railway with vintage underground stock. Hugh Madgin visits both the Island Line and the Isle of Wight Steam Railway.
68 TALIESIN MAKES DEBUT AT RAILFFEST 99 - News special photo feature from the biggest narrow gauge event of the year, featuring the debut of Britain's newest steam locomotive, single Fairlie Taliesin.
80 BETWEEN TODAY & YESTERDAY: NORFOLK'S LOST ROUTE TO THE SEA - In conjunction with publisher The Nostalgia Collection, Robin Jones takes a look at the latter years of the Great Eastern Wells-Next-The-Sea branch and the remarkable progress now being made by the diesel-operated Mid-Norfolk Railway.
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