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WESTERN CHAMPION DELIVERS THE GOODS...AND ALFRED COMES HOME TOO!
Twenty-five years after the final Class 52 diesel hydraulics were withdrawn by BR in 1977, heritage icon D1015 Western Champion staged a comeback to Cornwall in late August - hauling a series of revenue-earning china clay trains. And the golden ochre giant starred alongside a yellow-liveried diminutive Bagnall saddle tank - which made an emotional return to the clay port it last served the same year, as Brian Sharpe and Robin Jones report.
PURBECK WELCOMES THE DORSET VOYAGER
Thirty years ago, would-be a€~New Generationa€ revivalists who wanted to relay the Swanage branch were considered dreamers. But on September 8, those pioneers proudly rode aboard a Virgin Super Voyager tilting train into the resort - the first through train since January 1972, as Robin Jones reports.
Whata€ s left of....THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY
Next year will see the 80th anniversary of the Grouping. What is left of the North Staffordshire Railway, for example, in substantially original condition? In the first of a series of investigations, Brian Sharpe looks at one of the smaller constituents of the LMS and finds that although there was rather more of the a€~Owd Knottya€ than might be expected, Churnet Valley Railway apart there is not much left now.
RESCALING DIZZY SOUTHERN HEIGHTS
After 23 years of attempting to reopen a section of the legendary Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, revivalists made their first light engine movement on August 24. Robin Jones reports from Woody Bay, once the highest station on the Southern Railway.
CARRIAGE & WAGON DEPARTMENT: A DINING CAR OF DISTINCTION
Coach restorer Stephen Middleton outlines his latest project which is rapidly drawing to a conclusion - the rebirth of an East Coach Joint Stock dining car which was once only days away from the bonfire.
CARRYING COAL AT SNIBSTON
Mention of Coalville brings back fond memories of the BR open days once held at the Mantle Lane depot. Yet as the last one was being staged, a new heritage attraction was being formed a stonea€ s throw from the BR yard, as Anthony Coulls outlines.
ENGLANDa€ S WORST RAIL DISASTER - 50 YEARS ON
October 8 marks the 50th anniversary of Englanda€ s worst- ever railway crash - the collision at fogbound Harrow & Wealdstone station which cost 112 lives. Peter Tatlow retells the story of that terrible day.
Twenty-five years after the final Class 52 diesel hydraulics were withdrawn by BR in 1977, heritage icon D1015 Western Champion staged a comeback to Cornwall in late August - hauling a series of revenue-earning china clay trains. And the golden ochre giant starred alongside a yellow-liveried diminutive Bagnall saddle tank - which made an emotional return to the clay port it last served the same year, as Brian Sharpe and Robin Jones report.
PURBECK WELCOMES THE DORSET VOYAGER
Thirty years ago, would-be a€~New Generationa€ revivalists who wanted to relay the Swanage branch were considered dreamers. But on September 8, those pioneers proudly rode aboard a Virgin Super Voyager tilting train into the resort - the first through train since January 1972, as Robin Jones reports.
Whata€ s left of....THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY
Next year will see the 80th anniversary of the Grouping. What is left of the North Staffordshire Railway, for example, in substantially original condition? In the first of a series of investigations, Brian Sharpe looks at one of the smaller constituents of the LMS and finds that although there was rather more of the a€~Owd Knottya€ than might be expected, Churnet Valley Railway apart there is not much left now.
RESCALING DIZZY SOUTHERN HEIGHTS
After 23 years of attempting to reopen a section of the legendary Lynton & Barnstaple Railway, revivalists made their first light engine movement on August 24. Robin Jones reports from Woody Bay, once the highest station on the Southern Railway.
CARRIAGE & WAGON DEPARTMENT: A DINING CAR OF DISTINCTION
Coach restorer Stephen Middleton outlines his latest project which is rapidly drawing to a conclusion - the rebirth of an East Coach Joint Stock dining car which was once only days away from the bonfire.
CARRYING COAL AT SNIBSTON
Mention of Coalville brings back fond memories of the BR open days once held at the Mantle Lane depot. Yet as the last one was being staged, a new heritage attraction was being formed a stonea€ s throw from the BR yard, as Anthony Coulls outlines.
ENGLANDa€ S WORST RAIL DISASTER - 50 YEARS ON
October 8 marks the 50th anniversary of Englanda€ s worst- ever railway crash - the collision at fogbound Harrow & Wealdstone station which cost 112 lives. Peter Tatlow retells the story of that terrible day.
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