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EDITORIAL

A second Age of the Volunteer

Furness No. 20 to visit Didcot

Remembering the first GWR bus 120 years on

£3.2m Lotter y win for Stockton & Darlington 200

IN BR IEF

Cotswold line wins national award in partnership with museum

Britannia for Swanage March gala

GCR Reunification set for the next step – or two!

Buy a Brighton Belle coach!

New agreement with trust paves way for GCR( N ) services to restart

Oldest-surviving Hunslet heads for Bluebell branch line bonanza

West Somerset Railway launches £50k landslip appeal

Pendennis Castle starts its fourvenue spring tour at Severn Valley

And for the next three calendar dates

Sir Nigel Gresley success for wagon group with Nene Valley visit on schedule

Coronation nameplate to precede the crowning of King Charles III

Model Dinmore Manor’s £22k boost for real loco – and its home

Fancy a line of your own? Evesham Vale Light Railway is now on the market

Severn Valley cutbacks as cost s soar and visitor numbers drop

Feeling the pinch – Bluebell considers year ahead

Fifty years since Alton’s ‘final thump’

Mid-Hants implements cost-saving measures

Help last push to steam T3 in spring

Record year for some – but a sign of the challenges ahead

Lost Welsh Highland Baldwin to live again

Double celebrations in order for Northampton & Lamport

Garforth footbridge moves from Yorkshire to Kent

Legacies fund ‘tribute’ purchase at Quainton Road

From Namibia’s desert to Snowdonia – Welsh Highland NG15 boiler returns

Great Central mourns preservation powerhouse Richard Tilden- Smith

Final push for club members as P2 Prince of Wales tender nears completion

Pointing the way at Bridgnorth on the Severn Valley

Running 1013 miles to raise £1013 for D1013!

Tywyn museum exhibition celebrates triple anniversaries

Pacific given green light for landmark visit to KESR line

Poppy Line spends £300k on new track for 2023 season

IN BRIEF

NRM exhibits shuffled after York’s Station Hall closure

Moorsline launches major pre-season drive for fresh volunteers to sign up

Saint meets Scotsman at Bury’s ELR

Famous face launches new campagin to protect Liverpool Street heritage

Vandals strike at Butterley

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Regulars

Yorkshire to Brechin: ‘Chopper’ moves to new home in Scotland

Spa Valley Railway offers real ale and a mystery to solve – and half-term rides for children at just £1

Cor wen gains it s roof – as new ter minus canopy craned into place

New-build single Fairlie is wheeled

Scottish ‘Tractor’ ventures south for second year

Historic crane comes to Donegal from Castledawson

March preser vation debut for Dartmouth’s large prairie

DEMU traction is back at Horsted Keynes – and this time it’s for keeps

Last push for funds before new Corris Falcon enters traffic this year

Gwili hires a pannier – and buys a RRV!

Bon Accord society gets Simplex successor

Kitson on loan at Peak Rail

Appeals to keep railway paddle steamers afloat

Swanage signalling pioneer retires after three decades

Bogie exchange kickstarts Class 416 EMU’s eventual main line comeback

Cravens Heritage Trains sells its last silver tube unit to LU

Dates for Flying...