Heritage Railway – August 01, 2019

CONTENTS: A1 No.60163Tornadocruisespast

HollicombebetweenTorqua yandPaigntonwith

PathfinderRailtours’‘TheDart&Torba yExpress’.

Origina tingat TameBridgeParkway, thePacifichauled

theexcursionfromBristoltoKingswearonSaturday,

July6.MARK WILKINS

COVER: Aclassic seasidesceneworthyofapainting:

SRWestCountryclassNo.34046Brauntonisse enat

SpreyPoint,Teignmouth,haulingSaphosTrains’‘The

Engl ishRivie raExpress’onSunday,July7. Steam-hauled

throughout,thetrainranfromBristolTempleMeads to

Kingswearandreturn.MARK WILKINS

CONTENTS

Regulars Features

4 Heritagerailway.co.uk

ISSUE 257

August 2, 2019–August 29, 2019

News

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HeadlineNews 6

■Lynton &Barnstaple headingwest

again aswork starts onexte nsion

■Swanage issues SOSformore

volunteer drivers and signalmen

■Independenttrack surveytoboost

West Somerset standards

■Farewe ll to Vale of RheidolRailway

chairmanPeterRampton

■Chartertrain to traverse‘rare’

Dartmouth track in aid of charity

News 10
■Visiting Barclay0-6-0 Tstealsthe
showatFoxfield steam gala
■Cambrian HeritageRailwaysopens
extensionat Oswestry
■Mid-Hants purchases popular
residentIvatt2MT No.
■LadyMcAlpine joinsrenewed
Strathspey push into Grantown
■Heritage sectormust save useof
coal in faceof‘green’legislation
■Austrian Zillertalbahn locomotive
to visi tWelshpoolfortwo years
■GreatCentralRailway awarded
cus tody ofOliver Cromwell
■LMS PatriotTheUnknownWarriorto
be completedat Butterley

Main LineNews 56

■SteamDreamsdeclaresregular

Waterloo-Windsor tripsasuccess

■RTCmarks theend ofSouthern

steam with daytrip52years on

■West Coast’s ‘The Jacobite’named

as Britain's best steam trip

SubscribeToday 30

Railwayana 48

GeoffCourtney’s regularcolumn.

Centre

Princess Elizabethhauled‘The

RolexExpress’onJune 30, with

the luxury‘NorthernBelle’stock.

Nene’s skillsforthe future

Gareth Evanslearns about howthe NeneValley Railway runs itsyouth

group,recently boostedby the awardofa£24,000grant from train

operating companyLNER to further its goodwork in developing talentfor

the national and heritagerailway sectors alike.

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With Full Regulator

DonBenn describes striking

performancesby locomotives

Nos.44871, 60009, 86259 and 45148

Main LineItinerary

Steam and heritage diesel

railtours.

Platform 80

Whereyour viewsmatte rmost.

Offthe Shelf 92

Latest book and DVDreleases.

Up &Running 94

Guideto ra ilways running in the

autumn.

TheMonthAhead 106