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NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL:Peak Rail: a new push forward
With the cash-strapped Strategic Rail Authority apparently pulling the plug on reinstatement schemes, the prospects for the widelydemanded revival of the Midland Railway's spectacular Buxton-Matlock line appeared bleak. However, in a blaze of'derring do,' Peak Rail this month announced ambitious new plans to again lead the project by itself, by first pushing forward to Bakewell and Hassop, reports Robin Jones.
WHERE HAVE THEY GONE?
The Severn Valley's lost locomotives Britain's major heritage lines each assembled sizeable collections of steam engines but what happened to the ones that got away? In the first of an occasional series, Brian Sharpe looks at the Severn Valley Railway's stock books, past and present, and investigates what happened to the pannier tank that never hauled a train, the German 2-6-2T and the BR Pacific, to name three examples.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL:Riley rail: the road ahead
A child of the sixties, self assured, infinitely single-minded, focused and very obviously Lancastrian is a description which goes some way to describing the ambitious young engineer that is Ian Riley. This 42-year-old locomotive owner/operator will in time no doubt join the likes of Gracie Fields, Cyril Smith and Lisa Stansfield in being celebrated as another of Rochdale's finest. Keith Langston interviewed the engineer steam enthusiasts now acknowledge as being today's man'.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL:Bridge that gap!
The Great Central Railway at Loughborough has entered a new debt-free phase after years of financial restraints, while sister line the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) has bought its line and is now running weekend services over much of its length. Thoughts are again seriously turning to the long-held dream of bridging the 412-yard gap between the two lines, and creating Britain's first inter-city heritage line. Robin Jones reports on the latest thinking behind moves to remove one of preservation's greatest obstacles.
OUR MAGICAL 50TH MILESTONE!
Robin Jones, founding editor of Heritage Railway, takes a look back at our first 50 issues and how the magazine has kept readers fully informed with the widest news coverage of the preservation scene while supporting all our heritage lines and museums.
THE CHANGEOVER YEARS:BR in twilight, 1963
Having witnessed the demise of steam in his native United States, Fred Matthews hopped 'across the pond' to record the modernisation of the national rail network in Britain. Forty years after his first visit in 1963, Fred's colour slides are published here for the first time. Writing from California, Fred gives an outsider's insight into the death of BR steam and the sweeping changes that accompanied it.
HEADLINE NEWS
North Yorkshire Moors Railway announces further trains to Whitby; Swanage bids for Ã
With the cash-strapped Strategic Rail Authority apparently pulling the plug on reinstatement schemes, the prospects for the widelydemanded revival of the Midland Railway's spectacular Buxton-Matlock line appeared bleak. However, in a blaze of'derring do,' Peak Rail this month announced ambitious new plans to again lead the project by itself, by first pushing forward to Bakewell and Hassop, reports Robin Jones.
WHERE HAVE THEY GONE?
The Severn Valley's lost locomotives Britain's major heritage lines each assembled sizeable collections of steam engines but what happened to the ones that got away? In the first of an occasional series, Brian Sharpe looks at the Severn Valley Railway's stock books, past and present, and investigates what happened to the pannier tank that never hauled a train, the German 2-6-2T and the BR Pacific, to name three examples.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL:Riley rail: the road ahead
A child of the sixties, self assured, infinitely single-minded, focused and very obviously Lancastrian is a description which goes some way to describing the ambitious young engineer that is Ian Riley. This 42-year-old locomotive owner/operator will in time no doubt join the likes of Gracie Fields, Cyril Smith and Lisa Stansfield in being celebrated as another of Rochdale's finest. Keith Langston interviewed the engineer steam enthusiasts now acknowledge as being today's man'.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL:Bridge that gap!
The Great Central Railway at Loughborough has entered a new debt-free phase after years of financial restraints, while sister line the Great Central Railway (Nottingham) has bought its line and is now running weekend services over much of its length. Thoughts are again seriously turning to the long-held dream of bridging the 412-yard gap between the two lines, and creating Britain's first inter-city heritage line. Robin Jones reports on the latest thinking behind moves to remove one of preservation's greatest obstacles.
OUR MAGICAL 50TH MILESTONE!
Robin Jones, founding editor of Heritage Railway, takes a look back at our first 50 issues and how the magazine has kept readers fully informed with the widest news coverage of the preservation scene while supporting all our heritage lines and museums.
THE CHANGEOVER YEARS:BR in twilight, 1963
Having witnessed the demise of steam in his native United States, Fred Matthews hopped 'across the pond' to record the modernisation of the national rail network in Britain. Forty years after his first visit in 1963, Fred's colour slides are published here for the first time. Writing from California, Fred gives an outsider's insight into the death of BR steam and the sweeping changes that accompanied it.
HEADLINE NEWS
North Yorkshire Moors Railway announces further trains to Whitby; Swanage bids for Ã
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