Features

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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The Rocket Fleet

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Sam Hewitt

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3rd February 2022

How much further can a locomotive go in terms of acquiring ‘legendary’ status than having a succession of full-size replicas built?
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Book of the Week: Model Railways Explained Beyond the Beginning

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Shannon Butcher

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1st February 2022

My hobby has been model railways for many years since I was given a Tri-ang Princess Elizabeth train set for Christmas as an eight-year-old schoolboy.
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Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive

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Robin Jones

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18th January 2022

It is not often the name of a railway locomotive becomes adopted as an everyday saying in the English language, but many believe that happened in the case of the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive. Heritage Railway editor Robin Jones has the story.
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Raising the roof at Bridgnorth

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Robin Jones

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30th December 2021

Fifty-one years after it launched its first public services, the Severn Valley Railway has been meticulously planning a civil engineering operation that is essential to keep one of the world’s leading heritage lines at the forefront of steam locomotive maintenance and operation for the next half century. John Titlow reports on the planned operation to…
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Book of the Week: 50 Years of Railways Around Bristol

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Shannon Butcher

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20th December 2021

Telling the story of Bristol area railways over the last 50 years, this publication is lavishly illustrated, including many photos […]
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National Railway Museum Appoints Railway Partnerships Manager

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Shannon Butcher

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17th December 2021

The National Railway Museum in York has appointed Paddy McNulty as Railway Partnerships Manager.
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