• Northern Ireland heritage railway celebrates twentieth anniversary of ‘transformative’ extension

    Downpatrick and County Down Railway (DCDR) has celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its extension to Inch Abbey.

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  • Is there no groups now? (The Royal mail train)! Never in my life so knackered? Played rugby for the town! Never much good!, Regular tennis player of no distinction? But a clinkered fire box on a long run to Bristol Temple meads with the Royal Mail train could fill many of these comment boxes! Stopped for steam (blow up) a couple times! (My…

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  • Advent news of 7027 Thornbury Castle being saved must be good news? It would sit on Bristol Temple meads, I have a picture of it having some pep pipe treatment by its fireman! ( i spoke of this and coal damping the other day)! Heady days of my old shed nearby (Barrow rd) With Dunster Castle, And later in 1965 Clun Castle of course. But we put…

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    • Clive; although 7027 Thornbury Castle has been acquired by the 4709 Group, it’s days as a GWR castle class are numbered as the boiler and other parts are to be used for a ‘new build’ locomotive. The remains of Thornbury Castle will be few and only memories will remain of it’s existence. Very sad!!

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      Riviera Blue Pullman through here on Sat 14th. PS, Ill leave my Thornbury Castle to a charity shop.

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    • The tour is called The Mayflower and to date is being hauled by the two Castles from Vintage Trains. 7029 Clun Castle and 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe are their two mainline locomotives. I’m aiming to seeing them at BTM so pulling out of St Davids should be just as stunning! Hope you get to see them and you get some decent photos!

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  • Great Western Railway completes makeover of trains

    Great Western Railway (GWR) has revealed that it has completed a three-year refurbishment of its regional and suburban train fleet.

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    • Great Western Railway should keep hold of the Class 165 and Class 166 and to use them when the Portishead line does reopen. And they could have kept the 6 Class 387/3s that would mostly be used on Reading-Newbury shuttle.
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