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• Streamlined duchess unveiled at York
• Tornado Stars on West Somerset
• Two tenders for Bittern
• Scotsman comeback delayed yet again
• Aberglaslyn Pass opening special
• Eastleigh works 100 stunner

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Top Gear - Tornado race in 21st June episode

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Streamlined! - Styling an era

Restreamlined after 62 years: Princess Coronation Pacific No 6229 Duchess of Hamilton makes its debut in the National Railway Museum at York. ROBIN JONES

Tyseley Locomotive Works has long been renowned as a centre of excellence for Great Western Railway locomotive engineering, and has kept more of the Swindon empire’s steam engines running on the main line than any other heritage venue. However, one of Tyseley’s greatest triumphs has come with a project which involved the re-creation of a legendary icon of the GWR’s rival the London, Midland & Scottish Railway – the restreamlining of a Princess Coronation Pacific, reports Robin Jones.
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ON SALE NOW - Tornado book

Officially ednorsed by the A1 Steam locomotive trust, the Tornado bookazine is the official account of the building of Britain's first main line steam locomotive for 50 years, how it took a team of volunteers 18 years to raise more than £2-million to build it and its international headline-grabbing debut on the main line, with a royal visit thrown in for good measure.

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Photo Gallery Updated - 11 June 2009

The Heritage Railway Photo Gallery has been updated. Keep sending your images and we will do our best to get them included.
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ANOTHER FREE DVD FOR EVERY HERITAGE RAILWAY READER

The Great British Steam series provides five titles covering fascinating aspects of the steam railway scene in Britain.

Get the first in the series 'Great British Steam LMS' FREE (You just pay £1.99 p&p) and save £3 on the remaining 4 individual titles with this great offer - or get the complete box (includes a copy of Waterloo Sunset) set for just £29.99 a saving of £10.

See page 22 of issue 125 for the order form.
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3rd in the series:
British Steam Past & Present
132 pages, £7.99

This is the third in the popular British Steam series. The bookazine contains an evocative mix of specially commissioned modern steam images and steam era archive pictures, the majority of which have never been published before.

The recently completed rebuild of ex LMS N0. 6100 Royal Scot is heralded with an in depth study of that restoration and the history of that iconic ex LMS locomotive class, including the facts surrounding the long standing ‘which Scot went to the USA’ argument.

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Dart Valley pays tribute to founder

By Barry Cogar and Sereny Houghton

TRIBUTES have been pouring in for popular Dart Valley Railway pioneer John Evans, who has died at the age of 83 after spending more than half his life involved with steam preservation in south Devon.
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Heritage Railway Photo Gallery Updated

Many more photos sent in by our readers for you to peruse...
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Email: yourpics@heritagerailway.co.uk
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Camping coach back at Loch Awe

A CAMPING coach has returned to Argyll’s main line Loch Awe station – and is available for hire.
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Did you work on the Orient-Express?

ITV are making a documentary about the world’s most famous and luxurious train – the Orient-Express. The documentary will immerse itself in the glamour, romance and nostalgia of the Orient-Express experience and also discover the history and traditions of this most indulgent, and spectacular, form of transport.

- Did you work on the Orient-Express?
- Did you ever travel on the Orient Express?

If so, we would love to hear from you! We are also on the hunt for any archive or artefacts from the heyday of the Orient-Express. So, if you have any;

- Film footage
- Photographs
- Artefacts - old tickets, menus, brochures etc

Please do get in touch if you think you can help with any of the above. You can contact Emma Wilkinson on 020 7157 4908 or emma.wilkinson@itv.com

We look forward to hearing from you!

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