Heritage Railway  |  164
Britain’s newest main line steam engine entered the record books with a storming run over Britain’s highest railway summit in the course of a tour which had seen the engine depart from Victoria not much more than 24 hours earlier. Brian Sharpe reports on the progress of the ‘Cathedrals Explorer’.
Former BR executive David Ward, never one to hide his opinions under a bushel, believes the modern trend to seek speed records and headlines with steam charters is wrong and counter-productive. Here he argues why.
One of the unlikeliest preservation projects of the 1970s nevertheless had some distinguished backers, but as David Ford reports, success eluded them.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in Heritage Railway 164.