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EARCHING FOR THE SOMERSET & DORSET: PART ONE
Thirty-six years ago the last regular passenger trains ran on the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line a€ and despite many attempts to recreate part of the fabled route as it was, nobody has succeeded a€" yet. In the first half of a major two - part survey, Robin Jones looks at the history of the S&D and the struggles to claim a place for it on the preservation map.
INDUSTRIAL SCENE: The first lady of steam!
In a field of engineering still popularly viewed as an exclusively-male domain, Kay Bowman, wife of Launceston Steam Railway founder Nigel Bowman, has proudly undertaken the first test runs of Quarry Hunslet Dorothea a€" a locomotive which she has restored from a rusting hulk largely by herself in her spare time, reports Robin Jones.
42 NO LONGER THE WOODEN IRON HORSE!
Restoration of the only surviving locomotive from the Alexandra Docks (Newport and South Wales) Railway, Avonside 0-4-0ST Trojan, began in 1966 - but it was not until December that it ran under its own steam for the first time in preservation. Project manager Ed Freeman recounts the story of one of the longest-running restoration schemes in the history of preservation.
NEW GENERATION LINES: Persistence, patience, perseverancea€Ã
Thirty-six years ago the last regular passenger trains ran on the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway main line a€ and despite many attempts to recreate part of the fabled route as it was, nobody has succeeded a€" yet. In the first half of a major two - part survey, Robin Jones looks at the history of the S&D and the struggles to claim a place for it on the preservation map.
INDUSTRIAL SCENE: The first lady of steam!
In a field of engineering still popularly viewed as an exclusively-male domain, Kay Bowman, wife of Launceston Steam Railway founder Nigel Bowman, has proudly undertaken the first test runs of Quarry Hunslet Dorothea a€" a locomotive which she has restored from a rusting hulk largely by herself in her spare time, reports Robin Jones.
42 NO LONGER THE WOODEN IRON HORSE!
Restoration of the only surviving locomotive from the Alexandra Docks (Newport and South Wales) Railway, Avonside 0-4-0ST Trojan, began in 1966 - but it was not until December that it ran under its own steam for the first time in preservation. Project manager Ed Freeman recounts the story of one of the longest-running restoration schemes in the history of preservation.
NEW GENERATION LINES: Persistence, patience, perseverancea€Ã
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