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A ‘new-build’ Great Bear?
Astonished to find that someone thinks we should build a new ‘Great Bear’! Churchward’s pacific was not a great success and aesthetically it left quite a lot to be desired (that puny little cab, for example). For historical data on the ‘Bear’, click here Nonetheless, the fact that Hawksworth did consider building a Pacific after […]
Gotherington Loop opens for Santa
On Sunday 4th December, Gotherington signal box on the GWSR reopened and signalled trains in and out for the first time simce 1949. A Santa train pulled by 2807 was the first train into the new loop and and 45160 passed it going in the opposite direction, the first time this has happened at this […]
Rolling Back Beeching – the Helston branch stirs
It is continually and truly marvellous how this heritage railway movement continues to give birth to new schemes that bring back to life those corners of the GWR that Dr Beeching thought he had killed off. The latest of these is the Helston Railway, which used to run for 8 miles from its mainline junction […]
The GWR’s Inspiring Cathedrals
On Friday, I stood among the rampaging hoardes of people at Paddington and found a quiet moment, before plunging down into the Underground, to admire and appreciate the work that has gone into the restored roof at Paddington. It would have been such a tragedy if it had been torn down and it now it […]
‘Truro’ to be retubed for Railfest 2012
Don’t listen to everything you hear! Various rumours have been circulating that iconic 4-4-0 No 3440/3717 City of Truro might be sidelined for a long while following boiler problems that have occurred while at the Bodmin and Wenford Railway. It was said that, even though it had earned good money for the NRM while on […]
6984 reappears as ‘Dowty Shed’ is demolished at GWSR
A bit of preservation history has just disappeared at the Toddington base on the GWSR. The ‘Dowty Shed’. an increasingly decrepit and ageing remnant of the days when there was a preservation centre in Ashchurch, has been demolished to make room for a new diesel shed. Named after the Dowty Railway Preservation Society next to […]
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There is a level of fascination, passion and unexplainable love that many people have for the old Great Western Railway. It is 62 years since the GWR was gobbled up to become a part of Bristish Railways and the various institutional permutations that followed it but the Great Western is still everywhere to be seen. […]
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