Heritage Railway - 2022-02-15

• Great Central: The bigger picture
• Britannia tested live over Severn Valley Railway metals before making its main line comeback
• GWR Pitchford Hall put on the market
• Top national award for Great Western Society and Didcot
• Group appealing for help in raising £15k for ‘essential’ Llangollen crane
• Bennerley viaduct reopens following £1.7m refurbishm­ent
• Tributes are paid to internatio­nally-renowned steam man Shaun McMahon and his work
• New P2 is coupled for the first time!
• Danish tank heads towards the home straight – after 36 years out of traffic
• ‘Buy coal now’ – a warning is sounded to UK heritage lines
• Moorsline launches major volunteer recruitmen­t drive for 2022 season start
• First wheels for B17 Spirit of Sandringha­m cast
• Revised plans for Forth Bridge visitors centre are drawn up by Network Rail
• Royal Scot guests at two galas as main line problem sorted
• Tender tank’s arrival marks major restoratio­n milestone for NER J21
• A purple Bulleid for the Platinum Jubilee!
• West Somerset and S&D Trust settle Washford station dispute
• West Somerset prepares for the ‘longest season’ in many years
• ‘New’ Corris station ready by Easter
• Stock society is told to buy its home – or face being evicted
• ‘Forgotten’ Manx Mona needs £12k to fund 150th anniversar­y display
• Bridgnorth shed roof works and crane appeal is ‘home and dry’
• Appeal to fund A60 bridge repairs for GCR reunificat­ion takes off
• Last of the unsteamed Severn Valley locomotive­s rewheeled
• New future for Newcastle’s Stephenson loco works building
• Council backs Stockton & Darlington 2025 bicentenar­y celebratio­ns plans
• Lease breakthrou­gh for Alford Valley revival
• Embsay launches Midland carriages restoratio­n plan
• Ferry Meadows Railway sold to ‘young local couple’
• East Kent is now home for ‘royal’ Class 365 EMU
• Bulleid Pacific overhaul boosted by £2000 sale of donated painting
• Nene Valley wagon group returns to Railworld
• Paignton Zoo axes the Jungle Express after eight decades
• GWR tank trio take up residence at Cranmore shed
• One of world’s ‘most scenic’ lines could reopen in privatisat­ion
• Bluebell Trust buys SECR O1 locomotive 26 years on from its arrival at the line
• Neglected state of South Africa’s main railway museum in George
• Army to play major role as Longmoor railwayana goes under the hammer
• Didcot donates major components to the Churchward County project
• Doon Valley on track for trains to Minnivey by 2023
• Steam, whisky, mystery, and fish and chips on the Spa Valley Railway
• Lifelong steam enthusiast eyes a post-pandemic return to one of Europe’s preserved ‘hidden gems’
• Corris Railway issues fresh plea to bolster new-build replica Falcon funds
• Steaming back to Louth from the north
• From post-Grouping to the BR era, nameplates prepare for head-to-head
• Geography lesson from GCRA and a reminder of steam era Pullman luxury
• Prototype flies in to photograph and negatives sale
• Little and large double act in Great Northern March sale
• Vintage Trains hires Duchess of Sutherland
• Tangmere back in traffic – with a little help
• Duke is on course to steam this year
• Calls made for rethink on new safety measures for classic Brunel bridge
• Flying Scotsman southern tours are fully booked up
• UKRT to send ‘Hoovers’ to Okehampton in March
• From main line to branch line
• More model wagons raise funds for locomotive restoratio­n projects
• Edwardian Steam: A Locomotive Kaleidosco­pe
• The Book of the B17 4-6-0s; 61600-61672
• Midland Archive Volume 1 Steam on the Great Eastern Norfolk and Suffolk
• Capturing that treasured Swindon moment on canvas
• Why do they want their railway back?
• New build steam and the fuel problem
• Can problems be overcome to help bring these steam locomotive­s back home from Spain?
• Railway Museums
• Saving Bourne’s Bridge 234: an artist’s vision

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