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32 NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: SNOWED UNDER BUT STEAMING THROUGH!
Normally snow is a rarity on seasonal services leading up to Christmas. This time round, however, there was too much of it! Despite the freak arctic conditions, our heritage railways battled against the odds to keep trains running, gifting linesiders with opportunities for some stunning photography, who found it to be the right kind of snow, report Robin Jones and Brian Sharpe.
38 THE GREAT WESTERN SOCIETY: 50 YEARS YOUNG
The Great Western Society celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2011, which will be marked by the launch of both blue-liveried King Edward II and the unique GWR steam railmotor. One of the earliest preservation schemes, it all began with four teenage schoolboy trainspotters Jon Barlow, Angus Davis, Michael Peart and Graham Perry wanting to preserve a typical GWR auto train, a 48XX (later 14XX) 0-4-2T and an auto coach. But it did not all happen at Didcot. Peter Chatman recounts the complex story of the GWS.
68 60 YEARS OF PRESERVATION: CLEAR ROAD AHEAD?
Concluding our marathon series on the history of British railway preservation, Robin Jones and Brian Sharpe review the achievements of 2010 and look at what the future holds for the heritage sector.
74 RAIL TOURERS GUIDE 2011
Our annual advertisement feature special highlighting what the top railtour operators running once-in-a-lifetime steam safaris have on offer.
80 CUMBRIAN MOUNTAIN WINTER STEAM
It took a long time coming but steam finally returned to the Settle & Carlisle line in 1978. It was in January 1980 though that the a€~Cumbrian Mountain Expressa€ was launched and steam tours over the S&C became an almost weekly occurrence. While we still have not seen a winter quite like 1947 or 1963 and the line sees more traffic and probably more steam tours than 30 years ago, steam over the S&C in winter is now a rarity to savour. Cameraman John Whiteley recalls the days when steam could be seen at its best in the northern fells quite regularly, many of the engines depicted not having travelled the route for many years now.
86 HELSTON BLOOMS AGAIN
Many eyebrows were raised in December when it was announced that the 2010 Ian Allan Publishing Heritage Railway of the Year Award has been won by the little-known Helston Railway in Cornwall. Roger Melton took a trip to the far west to look at the revival of the former GWR branch.
Regulars
6 HEADLINE NEWS
Tornado boiler sent back to Germany; plans to steam Metropolitan Railway No 1 on underground; OBEs for Sonia Rolt and Helen Ashby in New Yeara€ s Honours List; LNER A1, A2, A3 and A4 Pacifics line up date set and where Welshpool & Llanfair volunteers dug out a station from snowdrifts to run Santa trains.
10 NEWS
Helicopter pilot fined after a€~buzzinga€ a€~Great Britain IIIa€ on East Coast Main Line; passenger records broken as heritage sector again defies recession; repatriated Turkish 8F to run on North Yorkshire Moors Railway; Welsh Highland launched Ã
32 NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL: SNOWED UNDER BUT STEAMING THROUGH!
Normally snow is a rarity on seasonal services leading up to Christmas. This time round, however, there was too much of it! Despite the freak arctic conditions, our heritage railways battled against the odds to keep trains running, gifting linesiders with opportunities for some stunning photography, who found it to be the right kind of snow, report Robin Jones and Brian Sharpe.
38 THE GREAT WESTERN SOCIETY: 50 YEARS YOUNG
The Great Western Society celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2011, which will be marked by the launch of both blue-liveried King Edward II and the unique GWR steam railmotor. One of the earliest preservation schemes, it all began with four teenage schoolboy trainspotters Jon Barlow, Angus Davis, Michael Peart and Graham Perry wanting to preserve a typical GWR auto train, a 48XX (later 14XX) 0-4-2T and an auto coach. But it did not all happen at Didcot. Peter Chatman recounts the complex story of the GWS.
68 60 YEARS OF PRESERVATION: CLEAR ROAD AHEAD?
Concluding our marathon series on the history of British railway preservation, Robin Jones and Brian Sharpe review the achievements of 2010 and look at what the future holds for the heritage sector.
74 RAIL TOURERS GUIDE 2011
Our annual advertisement feature special highlighting what the top railtour operators running once-in-a-lifetime steam safaris have on offer.
80 CUMBRIAN MOUNTAIN WINTER STEAM
It took a long time coming but steam finally returned to the Settle & Carlisle line in 1978. It was in January 1980 though that the a€~Cumbrian Mountain Expressa€ was launched and steam tours over the S&C became an almost weekly occurrence. While we still have not seen a winter quite like 1947 or 1963 and the line sees more traffic and probably more steam tours than 30 years ago, steam over the S&C in winter is now a rarity to savour. Cameraman John Whiteley recalls the days when steam could be seen at its best in the northern fells quite regularly, many of the engines depicted not having travelled the route for many years now.
86 HELSTON BLOOMS AGAIN
Many eyebrows were raised in December when it was announced that the 2010 Ian Allan Publishing Heritage Railway of the Year Award has been won by the little-known Helston Railway in Cornwall. Roger Melton took a trip to the far west to look at the revival of the former GWR branch.
Regulars
6 HEADLINE NEWS
Tornado boiler sent back to Germany; plans to steam Metropolitan Railway No 1 on underground; OBEs for Sonia Rolt and Helen Ashby in New Yeara€ s Honours List; LNER A1, A2, A3 and A4 Pacifics line up date set and where Welshpool & Llanfair volunteers dug out a station from snowdrifts to run Santa trains.
10 NEWS
Helicopter pilot fined after a€~buzzinga€ a€~Great Britain IIIa€ on East Coast Main Line; passenger records broken as heritage sector again defies recession; repatriated Turkish 8F to run on North Yorkshire Moors Railway; Welsh Highland launched Ã
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