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Darlington revamped
The relaunched Hopetown museum celebrates the history of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.
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The one that got away!
New pictures have emerged of the fate of‘Black Five’No. 44781, one of the four locomotives which brought down the curtain on British Rail steam in August 1968, but the only one not to survive into preservation, as Paul Bickerdyke reports.
‘Our’loco at 25
July marked the 25th anniversary of‘our loco’, Freightliner’s No. 66503, entering service. Chris Milner looks at the background to the Class 66 order and how the loco got The Railway Magazine name.
Practice & Performance
The night shift at Leeds City Junction in 1952 was no easy matter, not least when dealing with the four overnight sleepers squeezed into the space of an hour that reversed at the former Wellington station, as John Heaton FCILT describes.
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