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A Works Visit to Horwich
Phillip Pickles took part in a special day back in 1959- and got plenty of ‘cops’ into the bargain.
A railway visit was always a special event. On arrival at the works, visiting permit on hand, a group of people would await the arrival of the official guide. The anticipation of which engines would be on the works was considerable…
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Naming the Battle of Britain Class
In part one of a six part series J.Dacombe explains the background to the choice of names for the Southern Railway’s Bulleid Light ‘Pacifics’
“Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few” Winston Churchill’s immortal words resonate down the years ensuring the ‘many’, all of us, never forget the ‘few’…
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To Swindon and Beyond
Christopher Hext served an apprenticeship with the GWR and workes at Swindon well before the end of steam, but he started at Newton Abbot (Part One)
Having attended the South Devon Technical College at Torquay, the job I coveted most was to be a draughtsman and although it was possible to enter a drawing office as a trainee, the preferred route was to first serve an engineering apprenticeship, on the tools…
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BR remembered… 70 years on
Railway writer and former editor of Steam World magazine Barry McLoughlin celebrates the 70th anniversary of the formation of British Railways
Britain’s railway network used to be a vast adventure playground for my group of friends during our teenage trainspotting expeditions
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