The Railway Magazine – August 2019

Incredible to thin kthat123 years separatethesetwolocomotives!The

Groudle GlenRailway's 1896-built Bagnall 2-4-0TSeaLionstandsatLhen

Coan station alongside 2019-built sisterBrownBear,just hours afterthe

latter’s deliverytothe Isle of Man on July 8.Thereplicaoforiginal GGR

locoPolar Bear(nowpreservedatAmberley),wasformallycommissioned

by Tynwald presidentSteveRoden OBE on July 28.RICHARD BOOTH

August2019•TheRailway Magazine•

TAKETHEHIGHROAD: Celebrating Steam on theWest
Highland-p

BRUSHSTROKES:40 yearsoft he Guild ofRailway

Artists -p

‘PACER’REPLACEMENTS: Class 195 and 331 train

test -p

Features

14 Sevenfor asecret ,never to be told

Diesel historianAdrianCurtis reve als th estory of

‘Warship’No. 829Magpie,and howits linkswith the

child rens’TVshowofthe samenamecouldhaveled

to it bei ng sa vedfromthe scrapyard.

22West Highlandcelebration

Marking the125th anniversary of on eofthe world’s

most scenicrailways, KeithFarr sta rtsatwo-part

study of trainperformanceontheWest Highland

Line.

30 Train test: Northern Class 195 and 331

ChrisMilnersamplesNorthern’snew Spanish-built

dieseland electric trainsto find out if they deliver

the expected leapinqualit yovertheirpredecessors.

35 Droning on

Unmanned aerialvehicles,popularlyknownas

‘drones’, arebringingastartlingnew dimensionto

railway photography, as GeoffGriffiths shows.

42 State of theArt

Nick Pigott recounts the storyoft he Guild ofRailway

Artists,which iscelebrating its 40th anniversary in

2019.

50 Bath GreenPark -some myths dispelled

Almost 40yearsafter his firstRMarticles on the

Midland station in Bath,Mike Arlett clarifiesthe

stories surroundingits openin g150 yearsago in

August 1869.