It’s a case of continuity, history and evolution for Britain’s oldest trackside journal, The Railway Magazine, as it nears its 125th anniversary with a wealth of experience and a new-look team.
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The March issue of The Railway Magazine takes you behind the scenes with the Royal Train, plus HS2’s Crewe extension is given Royal Assent as protesters defy bailiffs.
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0 years of the Pocket Peckett
As Peckett 0-4-0ST Teddy reaches its 80th anniversary, Gary Boyd-Hope looks back over its interesting career, including its connections to a famous ‘steamcleric’.
Operating the Royal Train: Part 2
Geoff Griffiths concludes his fascinating look back over his time as RoyalTrain manager, recounting some of the more humorous episodes he witnessed.
Merchant Venturer
For this month’s Practice & Performance John Heaton samples the splendour of preserved steam haulage over two of England’s best known and most scenic main lines.
A new steam train could be based on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR). An agreement has been signed between the railway and Churchward County Trust (CCT), which is building Churchward ‘County’ class 4-4-0 No. 3840 County of Montgomery. The agreement, which supersedes an earlier ‘agreement in principle’ between the GWSR and the CCT, gives the railway first option to be the home of the locomotive when it is completed. This would see the engine based at the railway’s locomotive workshops in Toddington where it would become part of the line’s operating steam fleet. Richard Johnson, chairman of GWSR said: “While we clearly don’t know what our railway’s locomotive requirements will be in ten or 15 years, which is when the new ‘County’ is likely to be available, I’m thrilled that we are being offered first choice for the engine’s future base.
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