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The famous locomotive will end its centenary year with a visit to the Locomotion museum in Shildon.
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On an afternoon just before Christmas, a man finds himself sharing a train compartment with a man whom he later learns has been missing for 3 months.
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A man who won £1 million on the National Lottery says he is hoping to buy a steam train with his life-changing winnings.
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The popular ‘Hogwarts Express’ service could be at the end of the line as it awaits a ruling after challenging a safety rule.
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From The Railway Magazine, December 2005: At Nationalisation, the GWR feared it would lose its unique character, but as it turned out, those worries weren’t to be realised for more than a decade and the 1950s and early ‘60s thus proved to be the era of the ‘Great Western Region’!
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From The Railway Magazine, August 1963 – The Hunslet Engine Co. develops an underfeed stoker and gas producer system which completely eliminates the emission of dark smoke.
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An investigation has been launched into the Flying Scotsman crash last month which left two people in hospital.
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A Victorian steam locomotive has hauled carriages for the first time in 78 years following a six-year renovation.
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Flying Scotsman will carry out rail tours this weekend after passing a mechanical inspection following a slow-speed crash last week.
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A County Durham railway station has been found to be older than first thought and is now believed to be the world’s oldest railway station, new research has discovered.
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