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Test your knowledge with Train Teasers

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Arianne Davey

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17 March 2023

How much do you know about the railways? Test your knowledge with Train Teasers – a quiz book for the cultured trainspotter.
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Riveting reads on a railway legend for its 100^th anniversary!

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Arianne Davey

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28 February 2023

Railway Hub regulars can’t have failed to see the huge media attention paid to Flying Scotsman as the locomotive reaches its 100th anniversary of entering service.
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Book of the Week: STRATFORD DEPOT LOCOMOTIVES

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Alex Bestwick

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1 August 2022

Photographer Roger Rounce’s Stratford Depot Locomotives is packed with stunning images and a must-read for rail enthusiasts.
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Three new railway titles available on Mortons Books

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Arianne Davey

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22 June 2022

Three new railway titles are now available to buy on the Mortons Books website – Railwaymen of the Welsh Valleys 1914-1967 Vol 2; More Memories of a Didcot Apprentice; and Stratford Depot Locomotives in the Eighties and Nineties
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Colonel Stephens: Celebrating a light railway legend

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Sam Hewitt

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31 March 2021

The life and work of an ingenious engineer who inspired Britain’s preserved railway sector is celebrated in a new publication written by Heritage Railway magazine editor Robin Jones.
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New Bookazine: Intercity 125 – A High Speed Tribute

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Sam Hewitt

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29 March 2021

Few trains truly reach a legendary status but there can be no doubt that the Intercity 125 HST was and still is, an icon in the age of the railway.
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