Strangers abroad

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Iraq was one of the countries to receive British-built engines – including

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Steam Railway Magazine

6 January 2023

Rail

Remarkable survivors from the 1825 s&d

With this year’s ‘Railway 200’ celebrations now upon us, DR JOSEPH BRENNAN looks at the remnants from the original 1825 Stockton & Darlington Railway that we can still see today

Model Rail

How to recreate a snippet of the west highland line

Peter Marriott shares one of his new projects, which aims to capture a tiny slice of this famous route.

Railways Illustrated

Managing the moors

Running a heritage railway is not an easy job. Many of our favourite lines were set up by groups of dedicated enthusiasts in the wake of the Beeching cuts of the early 1960s, since going on to become

Steam Days

The locomotives of thornton junction’s final steam shed

As we have seen across five articles so far – see related reading from the authors, page 23 – the provision of an engine shed at Thornton Junction facilitated a broad reach of influence and operation