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Steam Railway reviews 'Our Archive Heritage 05'

In this month's issue, the team at Steam Railway Magazine have written a review for our most recently released feature-length DVD, Our Archive Heritage 05. Read the review here!

Unseen Steam : Our Archive Heritage 05

Unseen Steam : Our Archive Heritage 04

RHDR No. 8 Hurricane is ready to depart Dungeness with a train to Hythe at the railway's 90th Anniversary Steam & Diesel Gala on May 13

Gentlemen’s Express

Despite supposedly being the Redbridge sleeper works engine, No. DS233, formerly No. 30061, and the only Porter-built member of the class, was hard at work in Southampton Docks on June 6 1964. The bow of Queen Elizabeth is just visible.

States Swansong

Collett ‘64XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 6437 waits at Sharpness with the auto-train for Berkeley Road on June 7 1962. The Vale of Berkeley Railway plans to rebuild the station as close as possible to its original appearance, so this scene could be exactly recreated in the future – using one of the three preserved ‘64XXs’ that also worked on the branch.

Steam Railway visits the Vale of Berkeley Railway

The end of steam across the Solent

Re-opening day, April 6 1963, 60 years after the railway was originally opened. An atmospheric photograph of 0-6-0T Countess running through the Narrows in Welshpool. Here, the railway had been constructed over Lledan brook.

Sixty years of Welshpool & Llanfair

June 18 1967 was the last time a steam locomotive would depart Swanage station. Under the arch of the Northbrook Road bridge – at the head of the RCTS 'Farewell to Southern Steam' Railtour is Salisbury-based Standard ‘4MT’ No. 80146

Swanage steam’s Indian Summer

No. 60034 Lord Faringdon coasts into Perth station with the 1.30pm Aberdeen-Glasgow express in July 1964

The ‘Streaks’ bow out

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