Your guide to the galas, special events and main line railtours

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With the fabled ‘Collection X’ locomotives out in the open at last, several are moving to pastures new. One locomotive moved to its new home by steam power – but not in the way you might expect. SIMON COLBECK was there to witness the extraordinary journey.

PART TWO

Everyone is now an expert on rail security… The one good thing to come out of the horrific stabbings on an LNER train at Huntingdon is that every MP and newspaper editor have suddenly become qualified

Following on from the 1828-32 ‘pioneer engine’ names feature in the September 2025 issue, we return for later locos in the same Royal Scot series. With the exception of Lancashire Witch, the names so