Features

All change at the LTM

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Darren Hendley

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25th May 2022

Christopher Westcott talks to Wendy Neville, the former head of communications at the London Transport Museum, about how things changed […]
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Book of the Week: The Rise and Fall of King Coal

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Sam Hewitt

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11th May 2022

This week’s Book of the Week tells the fascinating story of the UK’s ‘black diamonds’ from their origins to their role as the fuel that fired the Industrial Revolution: The Rise and Fall of King Coal…
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Book of the Week: Railways & Recollections: The Midland Mainland in London 1974-80

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Shannon Butcher

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25th April 2022

The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July).
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Book of the Week: The Midland Mainline in London 1974-80

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Shannon Butcher

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28th March 2022

The Midland Railway’s extension to London from Bedford to St Pancras opened fully on 1 October 1868 (local trains had run via St Pancras Tunnel to Moorgate from 13 July). From then on, improvements and widenings were undertaken through to 1905.
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No. 3440 City of Truro – ‘Ton-up Truro’: a reluctant legend?

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Robin Jones

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23rd March 2022

In 1904, Great Western Railway icon No. 3440 City of Truro could have been hailed as the fastest locomotive in the world after being clocked at 102.3mph…
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The World of Railwayana

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Darren Hendley

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21st March 2022

The term ‘railwayana’ can cover all manner of rail-related memorabilia, from Victorian carriage prints, right up to nameplates recently removed […]
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Looking both ways: When Robert Fairlie ‘Double Up’ Steam

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Robin Jones

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17th March 2022

The Ffestiniog Railway is famous as the only place in the world where the legendary double Fairlie articulated ‘back-to-back’ steam locomotives can be seen in action…
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The Stourbridge Lion: The First Roar Of Steam… Stateside

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Robin Jones

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2nd March 2022

The United States is renowned as a world leader in technology, and sent the first manned space missions to the moon half a century ago. Yet the first steam railway locomotive to run in the US was built in Britain – at a foundry in the West Midlands.
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Book of the Week: Diesel Dawn 5

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Shannon Butcher

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21st February 2022

Increasing affluence and a second-hand car allowed the author a geographical range previously denied to him and with various pals he embarked in the 1970s and 1980s on a number of expeditions.
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Book of the Week: Settle & Carlise Revival

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Shannon Butcher

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14th February 2022

The Settle & Carlisle railway runs across the roof of England, reaching the highest point on any mainline railway in the country, and carries both passenger services and freight traffic.
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