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The Royal Duchy train, hauled by Tangmere, along the Dawlish sea wall in 2015. Although steam locomotives were withdrawn from normal railway service in Great Britain in 1968, due to sustained public interest including a locomotive preservation movement, steam hauled passenger trains can still be seen on the mainline railway (i.e. Network Rail owned tracks as opposed to heritage railways) in ...
List of UK Steam Fairs; UK Traction engine rallies; Live listings of UK Steam and Vintage Events (Visitors may also submit to this Events Guide) "Old Glory" Online Guide to UK Events including steam rallies and fairs (dynamic list) - from the Old Glory magazine (Old Glory also publishes a 'Free' paper version at the start of each year listing ...
LMS Princess Coronation Class 46233 Duchess of Sutherland is a steam locomotive built in 1938 for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) at Crewe Works to a design by William Stanier. It is a 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive built as part of the LMS Coronation Class for its express passenger services, including the Royal Scot service from ...
The Llangollen Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Llangollen) is a volunteer-run heritage railway in Denbighshire, North Wales, which operates between Llangollen and Corwen. The standard gauge line, which is 10 miles (16 km) long, runs on part of the former Ruabon – Barmouth GWR route that closed in 1965.
6203 was built at Crewe Works, being works number 253 of 1935, and being the third member of the class and first of the second batch.It was named Princess Margaret Rose after the then five-year-old daughter of Prince Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI), Princess Margaret Rose, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth II.
A railtour is a special train which is run in order to allow people to experience rail travel which is not normally available using timetabled passenger services. The 'unusual' aspect may be the route of the train, the destination, the occasion, specific sections of railway track (for example, freight-only lines), the locomotive hauling the train, the rolling stock (passenger carriages), or ...
5029 Nunney Castle seen in preservation at Didcot Railway Centre in the 1980s. 5029 Nunney Castle at speed, 1980s photo Nunney Castle steam special passing through Dorchester West on its return from Weymouth to Bath 14 August 2011. GWR 4073 Class 5029 Nunney Castle is a Great Western Railway Castle Class steam locomotive.
7802 Bradley Manor is a 7800 'Manor' Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive. Built by the Great Western Railway at its Swindon Works in January 1938 it had an operating life of 27 years being withdrawn in November 1965. Designed by Charles Collett, it is one of nine of the class to be preserved and is currently based on the Severn Valley Railway.