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Railways Illustrated Magazine August 2013 Back Issue

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59 Reviews   •  English   •   Aviation & Transport (Rail)
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It’s all in the planning - How to organise a diesel gala
Closures and withdrawals - Good Year, Bad Year looks at 1981
Going on a summer holiday - Loco haulage to Skegness in 1984
Value on a Daytripper - £6 for the freedom of the West Midlands
Changing face of Railfreight - scenes then and now
Hatfield line reopens
New Vossloh electric locos for the UK?
DB gains Channel Tunnel access
West Coast Railways' Class 33 on the comeback trail
Network Rail modifies its Class 57s
50019 restored for overhaul
GCRN brings in the guests
Three Class 40s reunited at Barrow Hill
More Class 66s for GBRf
North Norfolk diesel gala triumph
NRM faces closure threat
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August 2013 It’s all in the planning - How to organise a diesel gala Closures and withdrawals - Good Year, Bad Year looks at 1981 Going on a summer holiday - Loco haulage to Skegness in 1984 Value on a Daytripper - £6 for the freedom of the West Midlands Changing face of Railfreight - scenes then and now Hatfield line reopens New Vossloh electric locos for the UK? DB gains Channel Tunnel access West Coast Railways' Class 33 on the comeback trail Network Rail modifies its Class 57s 50019 restored for overhaul GCRN brings in the guests Three Class 40s reunited at Barrow Hill More Class 66s for GBRf North Norfolk diesel gala triumph NRM faces closure threat


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It’s all in the planning - How to organise a diesel gala
Closures and withdrawals - Good Year, Bad Year looks at 1981
Going on a summer holiday - Loco haulage to Skegness in 1984
Value on a Daytripper - £6 for the freedom of the West Midlands
Changing face of Railfreight - scenes then and now
Hatfield line reopens
New Vossloh electric locos for the UK?
DB gains Channel Tunnel access
West Coast Railways' Class 33 on the comeback trail
Network Rail modifies its Class 57s
50019 restored for overhaul
GCRN brings in the guests
Three Class 40s reunited at Barrow Hill
More Class 66s for GBRf
North Norfolk diesel gala triumph
NRM faces closure threat
read more read less
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