Features

Derby Trainman: Like a limestone cowboy

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

One of the toughest, but most tedious, jobs for a 1990s Derby trainman was the stone train to Washwood Heath, […]
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Working with ‘Grids’

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

Steve Morris recounts his time on British Rail’s Western Region in the 1980s, trying to get the newly introduced Class […]
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A new generation of engineers

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Sam Hewitt

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19th August 2016

Young volunteers are becoming involved in railway preservation, and the recent ‘Deltic’ tour to Tweedbank saw an 18-year-old among the […]
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Tanks for the memories

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13th July 2016

The once extensive network of fuel oil deliveries is now reduced to a few as required workings. David Ratcliffe looks […]
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A brighter future for Mangapps trailer

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13th July 2016

Christopher Westcott talks to the Mangapps Railway’s John Jolly, and the new owner of 1959 Stock trailer No. 2044, which […]
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To Norwich, non-stop

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13th July 2016

The railtour organised by Greater Anglia at the end of April offered the rare combination of two ‘37s’ on just […]
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‘Roarers’ remembered: The Euston ECS years

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13th July 2016

The reinstatement of several AC electrics to main line duties last year, ostensibly for sleeper train movements into and out […]
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Skeletons in the closet

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15th June 2016

This site in Alizay, near Rouen in northern France, stores an incredible 23 examples of the Class 58 fleet – […]
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District Railway ‘Boxes’

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15th June 2016

Two unidentified District Railway locos double-head a through train from Ealing to Southend at East Ham in the 1930s. The […]
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