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A Royal visit to Swindon’s STEAM Museum

8 December 2022 Alex Bestwick News, Steam, Trackside

His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent visited the award-winning displays at STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway on Wednesday.

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Heritage railway suspends steam trains after fire caused by locomotive

12 August 2022 Alex Bestwick News

A heritage railway has suspended its steam trains after a fire caused by a locomotive.

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Mother’s Day at the Mid Norfolk Railway

17 March 2022 Shannon Butcher Diesel, News, Steam

The Mid Norfolk Railway is running a static Mother’s Day event this year at Dereham station, as unfortunately, over-running engineering works mean that the planned start of passenger services has had to be delayed.

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National Railway Museum & Locomotion welcome first visitors of the year

19 May 2021 Sam Hewitt Network, News, Steam

The National Railway Museum in York and Locomotion in Shildon have reopened for the first time this year.

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Pioneers of steam power celebrated in ‘Before Rocket’

20 March 2021 Sam Hewitt News, Steam

When most people think about the birth of the steam locomotive, they think of Robert Stephenson’s famous Rocket – but that engine followed more than 20 years of development during the late Georgian era.

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Colonel Stephens: Celebrating a light railway legend

10 November 2020 Sam Hewitt News, Steam
Colonel Stephens

The life and work of an ingenious engineer, Colonel Stephens, 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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