Unseen Steam Features

Unseen Steam : Our Archive Heritage 04

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RHDR No. 8 Hurricane is ready to depart Dungeness with a train to Hythe at the railway's 90th Anniversary Steam & Diesel Gala on May 13

Gentlemen’s Express

Despite supposedly being the Redbridge sleeper works engine, No. DS233, formerly No. 30061, and the only Porter-built member of the class, was hard at work in Southampton Docks on June 6 1964. The bow of Queen Elizabeth is just visible.

States Swansong

Collett ‘64XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 6437 waits at Sharpness with the auto-train for Berkeley Road on June 7 1962. The Vale of Berkeley Railway plans to rebuild the station as close as possible to its original appearance, so this scene could be exactly recreated in the future – using one of the three preserved ‘64XXs’ that also worked on the branch.

Steam Railway visits the Vale of Berkeley Railway

The end of steam across the Solent

Re-opening day, April 6 1963, 60 years after the railway was originally opened. An atmospheric photograph of 0-6-0T Countess running through the Narrows in Welshpool. Here, the railway had been constructed over Lledan brook.

Sixty years of Welshpool & Llanfair

June 18 1967 was the last time a steam locomotive would depart Swanage station. Under the arch of the Northbrook Road bridge – at the head of the RCTS 'Farewell to Southern Steam' Railtour is Salisbury-based Standard ‘4MT’ No. 80146

Swanage steam’s Indian Summer

No. 60034 Lord Faringdon coasts into Perth station with the 1.30pm Aberdeen-Glasgow express in July 1964

The ‘Streaks’ bow out

The Glorious Years

The Great Central : Sabotaged & Defeated

Steam Railway : Remembering railway photographer Arthur Cawston

SR45X Dolgoch

Steam Railway: Dolgoch – The old lady at 150

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Viewed westward at Margate on 23 August 1958, is BR Standard 2 2-6-2T No 84025 accompanied by ex-SE&C Maunsell ‘D1’ class 4-4-0 No 31247

Farewell to the ‘84XXXs’

The class, designed by R. A. Riddles but... more

Massive festive season work programme for Network Rail

Hundreds of thousands of passengers and... more

Swanage station in 2012.

Swanage heads for Wareham

Railway Clearing House map showing the network of lines around the Severn Bridge

Fifty-five years since Lydney Town to Sharpness closed

The origins of the bridge at Sharpness lie in... more

Bedford

Pauses unpaused

The announcement last week by the Secretary of... more

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