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Category: Features

Derby Trainman: Like a limestone cowboy

19th August 2016 Sam Hewitt Features

One of the toughest, but most tedious, jobs for a 1990s Derby trainman was the stone train to Washwood Heath, as Tim Helme explains. “WHOA!” came the urgent shout, crackling through the walkie-talkie wedged on

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Working with ‘Grids’

19th August 2016 Sam Hewitt Features

Steve Morris recounts his time on British Rail’s Western Region in the 1980s, trying to get the newly introduced Class 56 fleet up to scratch. THE Class 56 fleet was born out of the need

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A new generation of engineers

19th August 2016 Sam Hewitt Features

Young volunteers are becoming involved in railway preservation, and the recent ‘Deltic’ tour to Tweedbank saw an 18-year-old among the support crew. David Russell reports. THERE are many people who believe the average age of

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Tanks for the memories

13th July 2016 Features

The once extensive network of fuel oil deliveries is now reduced to a few as required workings. David Ratcliffe looks back at the history of these services, which peaked in the early 1970s. Tanks for

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A brighter future for Mangapps trailer

13th July 2016 Features

Christopher Westcott talks to the Mangapps Railway’s John Jolly, and the new owner of 1959 Stock trailer No. 2044, which now has a brighter future. A brighter future for Mangapps trailer External shot of 1959

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To Norwich, non-stop

13th July 2016 Features

The railtour organised by Greater Anglia at the end of April offered the rare combination of two ‘37s’ on just four coaches and the chance of a non-stop run from Liverpool Street to Norwich. To

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‘Roarers’ remembered: The Euston ECS years

13th July 2016 Features

The reinstatement of several AC electrics to main line duties last year, ostensibly for sleeper train movements into and out of Euston, is reminiscent of the 1980s when a small fleet of Class 82s and

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Skeletons in the closet

15th June 2016 Features

This site in Alizay, near Rouen in northern France, stores an incredible 23 examples of the Class 58 fleet – nearly half of the original 50 and more than half of the remaining 42. Visible

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District Railway ‘Boxes’

15th June 2016 Features

Two unidentified District Railway locos double-head a through train from Ealing to Southend at East Ham in the 1930s. The coaches are corridor bogie types introduced by the LT&SR in 1912, which replaced a motley

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