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July 2024

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The Railway Magazine provides the latest news, Steam & Heritage, modern traction and reviews and our brand-new July issue is out now!

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Golden anniversary gala

Kent & East Sussex Railway marks 50-year preservation milestone as it looks to the future.

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Practice & Performance

With a nonstop steam run from Plymouth to Bristol Temple Meads as one possible highlight, John Heaton FCILT joined the two-day ‘Great Western’ railtour from Birmingham to Devon.

Farewell shed, hello works

The once-mothballed Bletchley depot is being transformed into a compact ‘railway works’ facility, as Phil Marsh reports.

The ‘Liberation’ Locomotives

Robert Humm uncovers the fascinating history of a postwar 2-8-0 freight loco design that failed to find orders in the quantities expected, and subsequently disappeared into obscurity.

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