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Category: Europe

Little and Often

2013-12-10 John Craft

Categories: Europe, UK

Mallard 75 – The Great Gathering

2013-07-04 John Craft

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While my disdain for the tabloidy Daily Mail is nearly endless, this is actually a pretty good review of yesterday’s event. Just promise me you won’t click any links to stories about Princesses, Kardashians, or other ilk.

Categories: Europe, UK

Making 90 miles an hour . . .

2013-06-29 John Craft

The whistle broke into a scream . . .

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LMS 6170 on shed

2012-05-06 John Craft

LMS 4-6-0 6170 “British Legion” is the star of this 1936 publicity film showing the a typical servicing between assignments.

Categories: Europe, UK

BR 70000 ‘Brittania’ on the Royal Train

2012-01-252012-05-05 John Craft

While the timings weren’t made public, and the weather wasn’t the greatest, BR 4-6-2 70000 hauled the Royal Train from Preston to Wakefield yesterday, where the Prince of Wales rededicated the locomotive before departing.

Updated: 2012-05-05
Categories: Europe, UK

Happy Hallowe’en!

2011-10-31 John Craft

(Photo by Graham Williams.)

Categories: Europe, UK

Crew injuries on 241P17

2011-08-30 John Craft

Last Saturday ex-SNCF 4-8-2 241P17 powered an excursion from Le Creusot to Aix-les-Bains. While being turned for the return journey, the locomotive suffered a “rare but serious” failure, resulting in burns to driver Yann Janaudy and two others. An investigation is under way, and two future excursions have been cancelled.

Let’s wish the injured a rapid and full recovery.

(Via the Continental Railway Circle.)

Categories: Europe

Yesterday on the Settle – Carlisle

2011-07-212012-05-05 John Craft

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-SDsKgB8DA&w=480

(Thanks to Stephen Thompson.)

Updated: 2012-05-05
Categories: Europe, UK

Flying Scotsman at the NRM

2011-06-022012-05-05 John Craft

Flying Scotsman in black
(Photo by National Railway Museum)

The UK’s National Railway Museum has unveiled the newly-restored Flying Scotsman in WWII-era black for display.

The BBC files a report here.


(Photo by Carl Spencer.)

On Tuesday the locomotive was moved to the East Lancashire Railway for steam tests and commissioning runs.

Stay up to date by following Flying Scotsman on Twitter.

Updated: 2012-05-05
Categories: Europe, UK

Wash Up and Brush Up

2011-01-182012-05-05 John Craft

A fascinating look at the British Rail equivalent of the old ICC ‘Monthly’:

Shed code 6A on the locomotive’s smokebox was Chester, so the filming location is probably Crewe.

Updated: 2012-05-05
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