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Help Return Beyer Peacock Countess To Steam For 125th Birthday
THE Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway has launched a £150,000 appeal to fund the restoration of one of its two original locomotives in time for its 125th anniversary. Beyer Peacock 0-6-0T No. 823 Countess, which was built in 1902, was withdrawn from
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Diminutive Marcia Works First Passenger Duty In 40-plus Years
DIMINUTIVE Peckett 0-4-0T Marcia, the Kent & East Sussex Railway's smallest locomotive, made a triumphant return in the Whistle-Up celebrations after not having hauled a passenger train for more than 40 years, writes Geoff Courtney. The much-loved 19
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Rock'n’ Rail: A Lifetime Passion for Railways & Rock Music
By Richard Clarke (hardback, Gresley Books, 136pp, £22, ISBN 9781911704010) RAILWAYS and music have always been somewhat synonymous with one another (think of that classical piece Coronation Scot, or music videos such as that for The Beatles’ A Hard

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