Full steam ahead!

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Laura Coventry finds herself in the hot seat on Great Central Railway’s “D

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The People's Friend Special Magazine

05 February, 2025

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Steam Railway

Western enterprise

PART TWO

Steam Railway

Saving steam… with steam!

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.

Rail

Stop & examine

Some final thoughts from the team at RAIL

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Rail mail

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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