The Railway Magazine – July 2019

DRS Type 3s Nos. 37407 and 37059

double-head Retro Railtours’‘Retro

Devon Seasider’from Huddersfield to

Paignton though Dawlish on May 25.

Work to modify and increase the height

of the sea wall at this location is already

underway, and will change this famous

view of the railway forever.THOMAS MILLS

David Buck’s‘B1’No. 61306Mayflowerapproaches Clapham

Junction on June 4 with one of the day’s three‘Royal Windsor

Steam Express’trips. The ever-changing skyline of Battersea

looms in the background.MICHAEL COOPER

Visitors to Abraham Darby’s first iron-making furnace

greet No. 7029Clun Castleenthusiastically as it crosses

Coalbrookdale Viaduct with one of the Ironbridge branch

farewell trips operated by Vintage Trains on June 9.

STUART HOOD

Locomotive Services Ltd’s rebuilt‘West

Country’No. 34046Braunton–now

carrying its true identity again – passes

Wyke Champflower, near Castle Cary,

with the first Bristol Temple Meads to

Kingswear‘Torbay Express’of the 2019

season on June 16.MARK V PIKE

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