Rivals reunited

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PART FIVE

RIVALS REUNITED

Following Flying Scotsman and Pendennis Castle’s recent re

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Steam Railway Magazine

17 July, 2025

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Western enterprise

PART TWO

Railways Illustrated

They tried to run a railway

Running a rail timetable relies on the right number of locos, coaches, and staff being fit and in the right place. But on a network the size and complexity of British Rail, sometimes – in fact, often

Railways Illustrated

Where is there left to go?

This time of the year is traditionally quiet because many of the summer-only promoters don’t have much to say as they are working behind the scenes to announce programmes, probably sometime in Februar

Steam Days

Outings in wales and its northern borderlands

Even before I moved to the Chester area for work in autumn 1955, family visits via the city and its railway hub and on into Wales were regularly undertaken, always by train, but now I was living in Sa