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NEW - Steam - The Grand Finale - 132 pages, £7.99
Steam: The Grand Finale is a landmark publication chronicling the last months of steam on the British Railways main line. Years of painstaking research by Alan Castle, who viewed the proceedings at first hand 40 years ago, and interviews with drivers, firemen and engine shed staff, have resulted in this authoritative and definitive account of the year in which the final whistle sounded on a steam era dating back more than 150 years.
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NEW - British Steam 1948-1968
132 pages, £7.99
This publication charts the British Railways steam years and in doing so recognises that it wasn’t just all about the big named locomotives, there were many steam types which now only exist as memories and fortunately as photographic images. It was impossible to preserve one of every major locomotive class, never mind examples of the many other types which ‘also served’.
Within these pages those who have memories can refresh them, and those who are younger can glimpse something of our glorious steam heritage.
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Latest news
PR to the fore as Flying Scotsman is rewheeled
NRM Chief Mechanical Engineer Rod Lytton watches a Flying Scotsman wheelset being lowered into place on 16 July. NRM
IN AN event which critics may dismiss as a blatant PR exercise but supporters will doubtless hail as a timely move, the NRM took the unusual step of inviting selected guests to witness a significant moment in the drawn-out restoration of No 4472 Flying Scotsman.
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Buckfastleigh seeks new general manager
THE award winning South Devon Railway has begun a hunt for a new general manager to replace Richard Elliott.
Richard, 62, who played a pivotal role in the setting up of the line and its purchase from Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway operator Dart Valley Railway plc, is to retire in the next three years. Having been involved since 1965, Richard became the seven-mile line’s first general manager in 1991 when the South Devon Railway Trust took over the line from the Dart Valley Railway, leaving the security of his previous job as a bank manager in nearby Chagford.
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FEATURE: 41E reborn - The first 10 years
The Rail Power 2008 event of 22-25 August will commemorate several anniversaries, not least of which is 10 years since Barrow Hill Roundhouse staged its first open day. Geoff Silcock tells Robin Jones of some of the unique steam experiences created at this magnificent site over the last decade.
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FEATURE: THE THIN RED LINE ‘Torbay Express’ – from the poetry point of view
NEVER, ever get involved in researching railway or locomotive history. Ever, ever, ever. You will fall into an ethereal world of semi-consciousness, and float in anaesthetic for days without any sense of time, or recollection of who you are, or why you’re here, or whether it was today that you fed the cat, or three days ago.
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PLATFORM: ‘I can’t believe David Ward’s letter’ – FSR critic
I can't believe the letter you published from David Ward in issue 112 concerning Flying Scotsman. It is an excellent example of ‘revisionism’ by making so-called ‘facts’ fit an untrue story!
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Events
Coming up over 2008...
AUGUST
1-3: Spa Valley Railway: Diesel Gala
2, 3: Battlefield Line: Diesel Days
2, 3: North Yorkshire Moors Railway: 40th Anniversary of End of Steam. Nine engines are expected to be in steam for the Moorsline’s commemoration of the end of BR steam traction.
2, 3: Peak Rail: 1940s Weekend
2, 3: South Tynedale Railway: 25th Anniversary Gala Weekend.
2, 3: Weardale Railway: Wartime Weekend
3: Keighley & Worth Valley Railway: Vintage Trains
5, 12, 19, 26: Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway: Victorian Specials
8: Seaton Tramway: Seaton Carnival
9: Eaton Park Railway: Open Day
9-17: East Lancashire Railway: End of Steam 40th Anniversary. In the area where BR steam’s grand finale took place, the end of steam will be
appropriately commemorated.
9, 10: Swindon & Cricklade Railway: Vintage Weekend
14: Mid-Suffolk Light Railway: Summer Steam
15 - 17: Midland Railway – Butterley: Vintage Train Weekend
16: Talyllyn Railway: Race the Train
16, 17: Bluebell Railway: Vintage Transport Weekend
17: Cholsey & Wallingford Railway: 1960s Day
22-25: Barrow Hill Roundhouse: Rail Power 2008
Marking several anniversaries, including the tenth anniver sary of the venue’s first open day, this is the biggest event yet staged at the roundhouse.
22-25: Isle of Wight Steam Railway: Island Steam Show
Despite attention being focused on the north-west this summer, this is the big event for enthusiasts in the south.
23-25: East Somerset Railway: 1940s Weekend
23-25: Ecclesbourne Valley Railway: Bank Holiday Operating Weekend
23 - 25: Midland Railway – Butterley: Works Open Days
24, 25: National Tramway Museum: Transport Extravaganza
26, 27: Fairbourne Railway: Indian/Darjeeling Day
29-31: North Norfolk Railway: Steam Gala
30: Alan Keef, Ross-on-Wye: Open Day
30: Perrygrove Railway: Enthusiasts Afternoon
30, 31: Welshpool & Llanfair Railway: Steam Gala
31: Colne Valley Railway: Steam Gala
Thomas and family events
1-3: East Lancashire Railway
2, 3: Nene Valley Railway
8-10: Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway
9, 10: Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway: Ivor the Engine
9-17: Llangollen Railway
16, 17: Battlefield Line: Ivor the Engine
19-21: Fairbourne Railway: Friendly Fairbourne Engines
21: Talyllyn Railway: Duncan Day
23-25: Battlefield Line: Ivor the Engine
23-25: Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway
23-25: Great Central Railway
23-25: Sittingbourne & Kemsley Railway: Ivor the Engine
30, 31: Severn Valley Railway
31-Sep 2: Kirklees Light Railway
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