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Category: Features

Book of the Week: The Rise and Fall of King Coal

11 May 2022 Sam Hewitt Diesel, Features, Steam

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

25 April 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

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

28 March 2022 Shannon Butcher Features

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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Unboxing ‘Flash’ the Local Express Train from Hornby

23 March 2022 Ben Stockdale Features, Modelling, Reviews, Video

Today we’re unboxing a recent model train from Hornby called ‘Flash’ the local express train. It’s a remote-controlled battery train set targeted at the younger train enthusiast. It’s a great starting point for someone new

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Book of the Week: Diesel Dawn 5

21 February 2022 Shannon Butcher Diesel, Features

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

14 February 2022 Shannon Butcher Features, Steam

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

3 February 2022 Sam Hewitt Features, Steam
The Rocket Fleet

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

1 February 2022 Shannon Butcher Features, Modelling

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

18 January 2022 Robin Jones Features, Steam
Puffing Billy – the world’s oldest surviving steam locomotive

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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Book of the Week: 50 Years of Railways Around Bristol

20 December 2021 Shannon Butcher Features

Telling the story of Bristol area railways over the last 50 years, this publication is lavishly illustrated, including many photos taken by rail employees that give a unique insight to railways around Bristol and the

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