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ISSUE 218
July 28 – August 24, 2016

Headline News 6
Chinnor trains running into Princes
Risborough; Flying Scotsman diners
sell out within four hours; Scots
Guardsman rescues diesel – and
Pacific chases its own train; Oliver
Cromwell back and Swordfish steams
again after half-century.

News 10
Swanage Railway’s Wareham
extension date announced; Leadhills
& Wanlockhead runs ‘real’ bus
replacement service; travel agent
Thomas Cook’s first trip restaged on
Great Central; West Coast fined £200K
for Wootton Bassett SPAD; Leighton
Buzzard’s Pedemoura hauls first
passenger train in 92 years; Henley-
in-Arden footbridge rises again at
Broadway; Fletcher Jennings reunion
concludes Talyllyn 150; new Foyle
Valley occupants may restart heritage
line; two more to steam soon at the
Severn Valley and listed historical
items pulled from railwayana sale.

Main Line News 56
Steam Dreams plans three-day trip
to mark end of Southern steam half
centenary; Borders and Fife Flying
Scotsman gauging fiasco report and
Royal Scot’s improved performance
after coal change.

With Full Regulator 64
Don Benn reports on recent runs by the
Bulleid Pacific currently running as
No. 34052 Lord Dowding.

Regulars

Railwayana 46
Geoff Courtney’s regular column.

Centre 54
Oliver Cromwell back in
action at the GCR by Paul Biggs

Mainline Itinerary 62
Steam and heritage diesel
railtours.

Off the Shelf 82
Latest book and DVD releases.

Platform 90
Where your views matter most.

Up & Running 94
Guide to railways running in August.

The Month Ahead 106

Features
Flour Mill ‘greats’ back in the Forest!
Bill Parker’s Flour Mill workshop celebrated its 20th anniversary with a
gala at the nearby Dean Forest Railway. The event saw three of its best
‘customers’ return to thrill the crowds, writes Robin Jones.

68 Firing an A3 into King’s Cross
In 1960, the LNER A3 Pacifics
were already 35 years old but still
working top express trains. Brian Bell
describes what it was like to work
on the Pacifics, one of which, Flying
Scotsman can still be seen on the
same route occasionally, no less than
56 years later.

76 LMS steam: South East and West
Main line steam is following a
different pattern to that of recent
summers. Brian Sharpe reports on a
programme which has already seen
a Royal Scot to Kingswear and a
Jubilee to Weymouth.

84 In ‘The Middy’ of a Revival
One of the first branch line closures
by BR, the Haughey to Laxfield
branch lay dormant for 40 years until
it became the subject of an unlikely
revival. Peter Brown visited the Mid-
Suffolk Light Railway.





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