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The West Somerset Railway didn't exactly have a great deal to cheer about in 2019, its 40th Anniversary year. Despite its financial troubles it did manage to put on an Anniversary Gala and the... more |
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Always a highlight of the year, the annual "Great Britain" tour, the twelfth iteration, was beset with problems due to the changing availability of locomotives. We've previously seen... more |
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During the barren month of January for main line steam railtours there has often been a diesel highlight to lift the gloom and it's often been the Hastings Unit that does it. Once again it... more |
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One of the outstanding events (or, rather, another of them - 2019 had so many) of the Spring was the first double-headed run of the two Lynton & Barnstable replica locomotives, Lyn and Lyd, which... more |
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The Dart Valley Railway opened to the public in 1969 so a massive 9 day event was held to celebrate the South Devon Railway's Golden Jubilee in the early summer of 2019. The company had to... more |
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Probably the outstanding event in the heritage railway world of 2019 was the infilling of a "hole" in the history of Great Western 4-6-0 history - the launch of the Great Western society... more |
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Christmas markets seem to be everywhere these days. One of the earliest (British) ones is that at Bath which has been held for the past 15 years and is recognised as one of the best in the country.... more |
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Two LNER locomotives have recently suffered a number of annoyingly-difficult-to-sort problems and their trains have been diesel hauled or cancelled. Rather than show you diesel substitutes we are... more |
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Once again, rather than showing various trains with rather unrailway like "Santa" decorations, we look back over an eventful year on the railways of Great Britain, starting with the welcome... more |
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Running through Abergavenny station in the path immediately behind Black 5 no 44871 was no 60163 "Tornado" - in a very different fashion! She must have been close on the tail of the Stanier... more |
