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NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: PARKEND BACK ON THE MAP AT LAST!
After 35 years of hard slog by the Dean Forest Railway, its long-awaited northern extension is nearing completion, and scheduled passenger trains are set to return to the idyllic country station of Parkend, for the first time since 1929, in June or July. Not only will the extension give the heritage line a new railhead and a far more attractive round-trip of nearly nine miles, but it will allow incoming charters to access the medieval royal forest in a fresh green tourism venture, giving a new lease of life to the surviving western portion of the Severn & Wye Railway, report Mike Cornick and Robin Jones.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: FR50: A SPIRALLING SUCCESS!
The hugely successful early May bank holiday weekend gala to celebrate 50 years of fantastic achievement by Ffestiniog Railway revivalists had added sparkle in the form of Manchester-built Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Sharp Stewart B class 0-4-OST No 19 which, with its two replica coaches built at Boston Lodge, was more than at home on the line's ground-breaking Ddualt spiral loop.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: ARCHIVEOLOGY FOR ALL!
Hidden collections locked safely away in cellars and storerooms at the National Railway Museum belong to us all but, because of the sheer size of the archives, access has presented a major problem a€ until now. For the NRM's newest engine is Search Engine, which will allow everyone access to hitherto-unseen records and photographs. What's more, NRM officials are asking enthusiasts and members of the public to help make the archive even more comprehensive by adding their railway memories and pictures to it, as Keith Langston reports in a feature illustrated by priceless pictures from the collection.
WHAT'S LEFT OF... THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY
The West Coast Railway Company's new 'Jacobite' season begins at the end of May, and attention is again focused on the West Highland Extension, for which the North British Railway was perhaps best known. Brian Sharpe looks at what survives from the company, one of the three pre-Grouping partners in the East Coast Main Line from King's Cross to Aberdeen.
A GREEN FIELD IN GREAT EASTERN COUNTRY
Mangapps Farm in Essex was never connected to the national network nor, indeed, had a railway. Yet this one-time greenfield site has become a bolthole for treasures from East Anglia's transport past, and is brimming with artefacts big and small from the GER, Midland & Great Northern, LNER and Mid-Suffolk Light Railways. Geoff Courtney visits this magnificent 'must-visit' live steam museum venue, which has evolved out of a lifetime's labour of love for John and June Jolly.
THE CHANGEOVER YEARS: THEY ESCAPED THE HERITAGE NET!
Out of 999 BR Standard locomotives built, only 46 survived into preservation, after many perfectly serviceable 'modern' examples went to the cutter's torch. Examples of most classes, thankfully, survived among this select few but, as the preservation movement had not reached sufficient momentum in the late 60s to have saved one of each type, major gaps were inevitably left. Following recent renewed interest in building a replica Standard 3 tank at the Severn Valley, Keith Langston looks at the ones that got away, and the hopes for eventually filling some of the voids through three new-build projects.
REGULARS
HEADLINE NEWS
Three locomotive-owning groups told to quit Great Central; Swanage set to take over Furzebrook branch; half-million Lottery 'win' for Rhyl Miniature Railway; The Great Marquess overhauled at Crewe for both Scotland tours bid; and no-bids shock for Royal Scot nameplate.
NEWS: THE WIDEST COVERAGE OF THE UK PRESERVATION SCENE
Return of the last Caprotti 'Five' at the Midland Railway-Butterley; Corris Railway's new 'original' steam engine delivered; Brunel broad gauge Fire Fly given public launch at Didcot; East Lancashire engines caught in HMRI 'speed trap'; go-ahead for West Somerset's Norton Fitzwarren turntable; 'Metrovick' in the works for repairs at Crewe Great Gathering; Bluebell cancels WD loan visit for spoil trains; VSOE told to carry on using slam-door stock; Loughborough main line gap bridged a€" in virtual reality; GWR Preservation Group move back into Southall shed; secretary's letter rekindles Friends of the Settle-Carlisle group row; seven-figure sum needed to buy Colne Valley; Bl bonanza for Barrow Hill; last open weekend at Cadeby Light Railway; Virgin buffet car sold on eBay; Flying Scotsman shareholders express bitterness at AGM; soaraway success for Cleethorpes Coast Seaside 100 gala
NEW GENERATION LINES
Wirksworth line bought by revivalists 13 years early, and a start made on rebuilding the GWR Helston branch!
CARRIAGE & WAGON NEWS
Building society helps fund Ã
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: PARKEND BACK ON THE MAP AT LAST!
After 35 years of hard slog by the Dean Forest Railway, its long-awaited northern extension is nearing completion, and scheduled passenger trains are set to return to the idyllic country station of Parkend, for the first time since 1929, in June or July. Not only will the extension give the heritage line a new railhead and a far more attractive round-trip of nearly nine miles, but it will allow incoming charters to access the medieval royal forest in a fresh green tourism venture, giving a new lease of life to the surviving western portion of the Severn & Wye Railway, report Mike Cornick and Robin Jones.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: FR50: A SPIRALLING SUCCESS!
The hugely successful early May bank holiday weekend gala to celebrate 50 years of fantastic achievement by Ffestiniog Railway revivalists had added sparkle in the form of Manchester-built Darjeeling Himalayan Railway Sharp Stewart B class 0-4-OST No 19 which, with its two replica coaches built at Boston Lodge, was more than at home on the line's ground-breaking Ddualt spiral loop.
NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: ARCHIVEOLOGY FOR ALL!
Hidden collections locked safely away in cellars and storerooms at the National Railway Museum belong to us all but, because of the sheer size of the archives, access has presented a major problem a€ until now. For the NRM's newest engine is Search Engine, which will allow everyone access to hitherto-unseen records and photographs. What's more, NRM officials are asking enthusiasts and members of the public to help make the archive even more comprehensive by adding their railway memories and pictures to it, as Keith Langston reports in a feature illustrated by priceless pictures from the collection.
WHAT'S LEFT OF... THE NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY
The West Coast Railway Company's new 'Jacobite' season begins at the end of May, and attention is again focused on the West Highland Extension, for which the North British Railway was perhaps best known. Brian Sharpe looks at what survives from the company, one of the three pre-Grouping partners in the East Coast Main Line from King's Cross to Aberdeen.
A GREEN FIELD IN GREAT EASTERN COUNTRY
Mangapps Farm in Essex was never connected to the national network nor, indeed, had a railway. Yet this one-time greenfield site has become a bolthole for treasures from East Anglia's transport past, and is brimming with artefacts big and small from the GER, Midland & Great Northern, LNER and Mid-Suffolk Light Railways. Geoff Courtney visits this magnificent 'must-visit' live steam museum venue, which has evolved out of a lifetime's labour of love for John and June Jolly.
THE CHANGEOVER YEARS: THEY ESCAPED THE HERITAGE NET!
Out of 999 BR Standard locomotives built, only 46 survived into preservation, after many perfectly serviceable 'modern' examples went to the cutter's torch. Examples of most classes, thankfully, survived among this select few but, as the preservation movement had not reached sufficient momentum in the late 60s to have saved one of each type, major gaps were inevitably left. Following recent renewed interest in building a replica Standard 3 tank at the Severn Valley, Keith Langston looks at the ones that got away, and the hopes for eventually filling some of the voids through three new-build projects.
REGULARS
HEADLINE NEWS
Three locomotive-owning groups told to quit Great Central; Swanage set to take over Furzebrook branch; half-million Lottery 'win' for Rhyl Miniature Railway; The Great Marquess overhauled at Crewe for both Scotland tours bid; and no-bids shock for Royal Scot nameplate.
NEWS: THE WIDEST COVERAGE OF THE UK PRESERVATION SCENE
Return of the last Caprotti 'Five' at the Midland Railway-Butterley; Corris Railway's new 'original' steam engine delivered; Brunel broad gauge Fire Fly given public launch at Didcot; East Lancashire engines caught in HMRI 'speed trap'; go-ahead for West Somerset's Norton Fitzwarren turntable; 'Metrovick' in the works for repairs at Crewe Great Gathering; Bluebell cancels WD loan visit for spoil trains; VSOE told to carry on using slam-door stock; Loughborough main line gap bridged a€" in virtual reality; GWR Preservation Group move back into Southall shed; secretary's letter rekindles Friends of the Settle-Carlisle group row; seven-figure sum needed to buy Colne Valley; Bl bonanza for Barrow Hill; last open weekend at Cadeby Light Railway; Virgin buffet car sold on eBay; Flying Scotsman shareholders express bitterness at AGM; soaraway success for Cleethorpes Coast Seaside 100 gala
NEW GENERATION LINES
Wirksworth line bought by revivalists 13 years early, and a start made on rebuilding the GWR Helston branch!
CARRIAGE & WAGON NEWS
Building society helps fund Ã
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