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You would think that it would be nigh on impossible to gather together any crumb of enthusiasm when standing on the platform of Blaenau Ffestiniog on an October morning with the sky throwing out what are known as ‘stair rods’. But, when sizzling away happily at the end of said platform is the world’s latest new-build steam engine – double Fairlie No. 8 James Spooner – then it was hard not to raise a smile. In fact, not only was the new arrival on the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Heritage Railway given a rousing welcome by a choir of children from the local primary school, and local dignitaries, it was officially named at the station before heading back down the line to Porthmadog and a second welcome. There have been…

A SHARE issue, which aims to raise £3 million for several major infrastructure projects, will be launched by the South Devon Railway on December 1. The money will “continue the operation of our railway and the ongoing preservation and restoration of our locomotives, rolling stock and infrastructure,” the railway said, as well as enhancing its facilities for visitors, staff and volunteers alike. The projects that will benefit from the £3m share issue include a new building for carriage repairs; construction of phase two of the running and maintenance shed, and new visitor facilities and an upgraded museum at Buckfastleigh. Other aims include station improvements, locomotive restoration, and reducing the SDR’s environmental impact. Full details, including the business plan and share offer document, will go live on the South Devon Railway…

DARLINGTON BOROUGH Council has unveiled the designs for its £3.6 million attractions and visitor facilities commemorating 200 years of the Stockton & Darlington Railway. Named Hopetown in honour of the Hope Town Foundry and Hopetown Carriage Works, the project encompasses both purpose-built structures and repurposed heritage buildings, spanning an area of 7.5 acres. At the centre of the series of attractions is the eponymous former carriage works. Formerly the home of the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust and the North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group, the renovated carriage works includes a new exhibition hall, which will showcase a series of travelling exhibitions. DBC said: “A state-of-the-art 4D virtual reality time travel ride will take visitors on a journey through past, present and future. Also within the Carriage Works will be a community…

THE SWANAGE Railway has launched an urgent £250,000 fundraising appeal to help see it through to the start of next season, as it battles rising costs and reduced footfall. The appeal has been launched as, despite an outwardly successful 2023, visitors to the ‘Purbeck Line’ are still below pre-pandemic levels, while operating costs have continued to rise, alongside unexpected infrastructure expenditure. “Already we’ve initiated a voluntary redundancy process, are looking into the disposal of assets surplus to the railway and, indeed, are looking at cuts elsewhere, but there’s only so much that can be done in a short period without causing further detriment to the railway itself,” the railway said. It added: “As a railway, we need to identify expenditure savings (or enhanced income) of approximately £350,000. We recognise this…

Ex‑Dinorwic slate quarry Bagnall 0‑4‑0ST Works No. 1760 Sybil returned to steam for the first time in around 40 years on October 8, at the West Lancashire Light Railway. Built in 1906, Sybil was the sole locomotive built by the Stafford manufacturer working at Dinorwic, which was overwhelmingly wedded to ‘Quarry Hunslet’ 0‑4‑0STs. Purchased by the Armstrong‑Evans family, along with Hunslet 0‑4‑0ST Works No. 409 Velinheli, in 1965, Sybil operated at the family’s private Inny Valley Railway in Cornwall until the early 1980s. Subsequently dismantled, Sybil was relocated to Launceston Steam Railway and later housed in the nearby private workshop of its owner, James Evans – son of the locomotive’s original saviour. Put up for sale in 2012, Sybil was purchased by the West Lancashire Light Railway‑based Sybil Locomotive Trust…

THERE WAS a Great Western theme at the Great Central Railway’s Autumn Steam Gala on October 5-8, with both guest engines hailing from Swindon. Arguably the star of the show was Didcot Railway Centre’s ‘Saint’ 4-6-0 No. 2999 Lady of Legend, visiting the Leicester-Loughborough line for the first time. Also making its GCR debut was the second ex-GWR visitor, Severn Valley Railway-based ‘57XX’ 0-6-0PT No. 7714. The ‘Saint’ provided an interesting contrast to the GCR’s own resident Swindon-built 4-6-0, ‘Modified Hall’ No. 6990 Witherslack Hall. The Hawksworth locomotive remains in its guise as classmate No. 6988 Swithland Hall, albeit now fully lined out, having appeared in unlined condition for its debut as the long-scrapped engine at the GCR’s Railways at Work event in August (SR549). Also running from the GCR’s…

The HRA view WHAT’S THE ideal length for a heritage railway? Which is the ‘perfect’ locomotive? Where’s the ideal location? Is main line better than branch line, or two foot better than 15in? And which of these determines how successful your railway is? Clearly, if you’re running a 40-mile heritage line with a stock consisting only of coal-hungry ‘Pacifics’ in the wilds of Northumberland then you might need your own definition of ‘success’. But the harsh truth is that unless you’re a true outlier in your location, motive power or length, probably none of those factors are actually a true determiner of whether or not a heritage railway will be successful. The key factor is people. Yes, it could be argued that’s not quite as good when it comes to…

Want to be featured? Send your reports and pictures to: steam.railway@bauermedia.co.uk GWR & CONSTITUENTS 2807 After the completion of its three-year overhaul by its Cotswold Steam Preservation Limited owners, the Churchward ‘28XX’ (right) made its first substantial trial light engine trips on October 17, undertaking four runs between Toddington and Winchcombe on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway. These being successful, it returned to revenue-earning service at the GWSR’s Autumn Showcase event at the end of October, substituting for Foremarke Hall. The 1905-built 2-8-0 is now the oldest GWR-built locomotive in working order. 4150 Recent work on the ‘Large Prairie’, currently being restored at the Severn Valley Railway, has involved the painstaking task of fitting hundreds of small rivets to the side tanks. Pressure-testing has also been carried out on the…

NUMBER 35 Crossword aficionado and railway enthusiast Alan Frost has come up with the perfect way to spend ten minutes (if you are quick) or a couple of hours (if research is required). The Steam Railway crossword is back – just for fun. No need to send in your answers – just test yourself and find the answers here next issue. ACROSS 1 ER 60529 ‘A2’ nominee needs to be a good one! (7) 5 & 20 Down: Legendary hero of ‘Brit’ 70038 (5,4) 8 MPD 31A sub-shed near East Anglian cathedral (3)9 Lot of monkey business on British ‘Rock’ of Stanier 45608! (9) 10 WR 7005 composer of famous concerto for this instrument (5)11 ‘-------- & Haverthwaite Railway’, heritage line in north of England (8) 14 Name of north…

No. 1 We’ve all read the history books, and most of us will remember school teachers telling us, too. The first passenger train on a public railway was hauled by Locomotion No. 1 on the Stockton and Darlington Railway. We can probably all visualise the image of the aforementioned machine crossing the Skerne Bridge in Darlington on that opening day too. You might even have been to see Locomotion No. 1 and paid homage to this history. The problem is, it’s virtually all incorrect in one way or another… and that’s putting it politely! New research by the hugely respected duo of Dr Michael Bailey and Peter Davidson has brought the true story of the vehicle known to most of us as Locomotion into the harsh light of evidence-based history.…

In the not-too-distant past, there was some speculation about the viability of running ‘hardcore railtours’ just for enthusiasts, and one of the tours being speculated upon was a re-run of the 2.45am Waterloo-Weymouth papers train. Now, as it happens, the 2.45am papers was one of my favourite turns in my time as a fireman in No. 3 Link at 70A Nine Elms. The 2.45am was, at the time, a regular No. 3 Link turn and, quite by chance, there’s even a partial record of one of my ‘night owl’ runs on this job in D.W. Winkworth’s excellent book Bulleid’s Pacifics. Table 46 logs our progress between Woking and Basingstoke. On May 22 1965, in the company of my regular mate Eric ‘Sooty’ Saunders, we had ‘Battle of Britain’ class No.…

6G SHEDCODE Special The story of Llandudno Junction shed, coded 7A under the LMS and 6G under British Railways, begins with the St George’s Harbour Company, which built a two-road depot in 1858. This little-known company was formed by an Act of Parliament in 1857 to build not only a harbour and associated pier at Llandudno, but also a railway to join the existing Chester-Holyhead route. With just £20 capital in shares, it leased the shed to the much larger LNWR in 1862 which then absorbed the smaller operation on July 28 1873. Seven years later – after the extension of the Conwy Valley route to Blaenau – the LNWR demolished and rebuilt the original shed as a single-ended, northlight-roofed building capable of housing 12 engines. Sited south of the…

Isn’t it funny how history repeats itself? In 1979, the Ffestiniog Railway completed its first new steam locomotive of the preservation era – double Fairlie Earl of Merioneth. The austere, angular machine had been built to replace the life-expired 1886-built double Fairlie Livingston Thompson. But rather than subject the Victorian machine to a heavy rebuild along similar, controversial lines as 1879-built Fairlie Merddin Emrys – thus erasing the locomotive’s classic Spooner-era styling and destroying much historic material – the arrival of the new Earl of Merioneth allowed Livingston Thompson to be conserved in aspic, and preserved as a cherished museum exhibit. Fast forward 40-odd years and the story has come full circle. In 2018, Earl of Merioneth was retired needing significant attention, but having become an important part of the FR’s…

WHISTLESTOP VALLEY‑BASED 15in gauge 2‑4‑2 Sian was the star of the show at the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway’s Autumn Gala on October 21/22. Designed by Ernest W. Twining in 1951, and built by Guest Engineering & Maintenance Co. Ltd in 1963, the locomotive appeared alongside RHDR resident ‘Pacifics’ Nos. 1 Green Goddess, 2 Northern Chief, 3 Southern Maid, 10 Doctor Syn, and 11 Black Prince, as well as 4‑8‑2s Nos. 5 Hercules and 6 Samson at the event. The gala marked the end of an era for the RHDR; after the event, the locomotives left the historic 1926‑built engine shed at New Romney for the last time, as the building is scheduled for demolition over the winter, having become life‑expired.…

THE NORTH Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group has started moving into its new home, in the 1861-built former Stockton & Darlington Railway shed in Darlington. The first stage of the move was completed on October 13, with the move of under-overhaul ‘J72’ 0-6-0T No. 69023 from its former base at the former Hopetown Carriage Works to the shed. NELPG will occupy the southern half of the shed, while the Darlington Railway Preservation Society will occupy the northern half. NELPG’s lease on its half of shed from Darlington Borough Council is until April 2026, although negotiations for an extension until 2033 are under way. Built in 1861 and designed by William Peachey, the building served as a running shed until 1877, when it became the paint shop for Darlington North Road Works,…

WITH TWO visiting Stanier locomotives, a matching pair of air-smoothed Bulleid ‘Pacifics’, and a 33-wagon goods train, the East Lancashire Railway’s Autumn Steam Gala on October 13-15 was a real showstopper. Making a rare visit to a heritage line was Chris Beet’s Carnforth-based ‘Jubilee’ No. 45690 Leander. Normally found hauling main line railtours, the BR black 4-6-0’s main line ‘ticket’ expired on November 7. “We are looking to see if we can get an extension of the boiler based on its condition for heritage railways for a few months with a limited number of steamings,” Beet told Steam Railway, adding that plans are being made for what could be its final overhaul. “We’ve got a new tender tank ready to go, the boiler doesn’t need a terrific amount of work…

Narrow Gauge RECENTLY RESTORED ex-Sena Sugar Estates Fowler 0-4-2T Works No. 15513 was reunited with two of its UK-based former workmates at the Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway. The 1920-built locomotive, which made its UK preservation debut at Statfold in June (SR546), worked alongside Bredgar & Wormshill residents 1912-built 0-4-2T Works No. 13573 ‘Zambezi’ and 1930-built 0-6-0WT Works No. 18800 ‘Limpopo’ at the Kent 2ft gauge railway across two days on September 30/October 1. The first day consisted of photo charters with all three engines, with the second day forming the B&WLR’s final gal day of the year. Also running on this day were ex-Penrhyn Quarry O&K 0-4-0WT Eigiau (Works No. 5668 of 1912) and 1936-built O&K 0-4-0WT Works No. 12722 ‘Katie’.…

THE BRECON Mountain and Vale of Rheidol railways will once again be under shared ownership from next year, after a proposed merger takes place. Built on the standard gauge trackbed of the former Brecon & Merthyr Railway between Pant and Torpantau, the 1ft 11¾in‑gauge BMR was the brainchild of business partners Tony Hills and Peter Rampton, opening in 1980. The American narrow gauge‑themed line then acquired the Vale of Rheidol in 1988, when the Aberystwyth‑Devil’s Bridge line was put up for sale by British Rail. Both railways operated under shared management until 1996 when it was decided to run them as separate entities, with Hills taking charge of the BMR and Rampton the VoR. Following the deaths of Hills and Rampton in 2015 and 2019 respectively, the VoR said the…

A REPEAT visit by a local locomotive and a first public appearance after overhaul by another helped the Tanfield Railway make a success of its end of season gala weekend. 1871-built ‘coffee pot’ Betchworth No. 1 made a return visit to Marley Hill from nearby Beamish Museum for the ‘Run It’ gala on October 14/15. The Head Wrightson 0-4-0VBT was stored at Marley Hill in the early 1970s during Beamish’s formative years and returned for a gala visit when restored in the early 2000s. This time, however, it was accompanied by a ‘black waggon’ for shunting demonstrations in the yard. Also back in action at Marley Hill was Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST Renishaw Ironworks No. 6. The 1919-built locomotive (Works No. 1366) has only recently gained its new boiler ‘ticket’ after…

THE BLUEBELL Railway’s Giants of Steam gala on October 13-15 played heavily with the line’s Southern heritage, with a pair of Bulleid ‘Light Pacifics’ headlining the show. Making its first visit to the Bluebell in over 20 years was Severn Valley Railway-based rebuilt ‘West Country’ Taw Valley, still carrying its inauthentic Southern wartime black livery and original Bulleid number, No. 21C127. The locomotive last graced Bluebell metals in autumn 2002, when it appeared as scrapped classmate No. 34045 Ottery St Mary. The second ‘Light Pacific’ at the event was Swanage Railway-based air-smoothed ‘Battle of Britain’ No. 34070 Manston, still sporting the ‘weathered’ paintwork it has carried since returning to steam following its latest overhaul in December 2022. There was a third Bulleid in steam at the event – albeit not…

Peter Townend, the King’s Cross shedmaster who got the very best out of Gresley’s East Coast ‘A3s’ in their final years by fitting them with Kylchap blastpipes, double chimneys and German-style smoke deflectors, died on October 18 at the grand age of 98. While we have now lost one of our last remaining links with main line steam, were have the good fortune to have his life story in print, and his definitive Top Shed book describes the life and times of ‘34A’, the depot at the London end of the East Coast Main Line. It was overloaded with ‘Pacifics’ in the 1950s, and had a staff of over 1,000 footplate crew, cleaners, fitters, storemen, clerks and supervisors. Its ‘Top Link’ drivers were legends. Until fairly recently, Peter was a…

Since the late 1980s working out of Snowdon, I was aware that the future of steam was fragile. Now, writing this in 2023, my fears have become reality. I have spent huge amounts of time and resources investigating and building modern steam technology that not only went as far as my predecessors such as Chapelon, Porta, Wardale, Girdlestone, and McMahon, but further by developing other areas beyond the considered limits of preserved heritage. Preservation can lead to a culture of stagnation, and denial of the Darwinian rules of evolution can result in extinction. Would it not be tragic to see the steam locomotive become yet another dinosaur? We cannot allow our beloved steam locomotives to lumber on as another proverbial Tyrannosaurus Rex, incapable of meeting the demands of a changing…

The United Kingdom was once littered with branch lines, but the cycle of road competition leading to reduced trade and thus eventually poorer services gradually rendered the majority unprofitable. Adding to the burden was, on occasions, the need for ‘specialist’ motive power owing to either weight restrictions or sharp curves or, in some cases, both. The Western Region had a hand in sorting out a number of these, such as the Dornoch branch where two ‘16XX’ pannier tanks were sent to replace the 1905 built 0‑4‑4Ts retained specifically to work the line. Although not a passenger service, the Western also sent panniers, in that case, the ‘1366’ variety, to replace the Beattie Well tanks on the Wenford line. The Lyme Regis branch had its LSWR ‘0415’ 4‑4‑2Ts for many years.…

WHAT SHOULD have been the best year ever for the Strathspey Railway family has turned into one of the worst,” the railway’s company board has said, with the Scottish line facing a six-figure loss following Flying Scotsman’s low-speed shunting incident and subsequent refunds to passengers. The statement comes after 42 of the railway’s paid staff and volunteers signed a petition amounting to a vote of no confidence in the company board, calling for all the directors to resign. The petition also highlighted several areas of concern about the management of the railway, including a lack of communication, leadership, and forward planning; an inability to follow company policies; an inability to deal with staffing issues; and a lack of respect for all staff. A meeting to address these concerns was held…

CONSTRUCTION OF LNER Gresley ‘P2’ 2-8-2 No. 2007 Prince of Wales reached a significant milestone in early October, when the ‘Mikado’s’ ‘monobloc’ cylinder block was delivered to the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust’s new HQ in Darlington. Costing £250,000 and weighing in at over six tons, the fabricated cylinder block has been manufactured by Howco of Irvine, and represents a major step towards No. 2007’s completion. The trust chose to fabricate the cylinder block because casting the complex component as per the originals is sadly no longer possible. “Proving this method is not only vital for the ‘P2’, but the trust’s next build project – the ‘V4’ – will require a similarly fabricated monobloc cylinder. This method could also be applied to heritage locomotives such as the ‘V2’ class No. 4771…

THERE COULD be two ex-LSWR 4-4-0s running at the Swanage Railway in six years’ time, if plans to return ‘T9’ No. 30120 to steam in time for its 130th birthday come to fruition. Fresh from the recent launch into service of newly restored LSWR ‘T3’ No. 563 on October 7, the Swanage Railway Trust 563 Locomotive Group is finalising an agreement with the National Railway Museum – which owns No. 30120 – to launch a fundraising campaign to return the Drummond ‘Greyhound’ to service in 2029. The necessary paperwork is expected to be finalised in the next couple of months. Based at the ‘Purbeck Line’ since July 2017, the 1899-built ‘T9’ last ran in July 2020, when it was withdrawn with broken firebox stays. As reported in SR547, the prospective…

IT WAS all about South Wales steam at the Dean Forest Railway’s ‘Royal Forest of Steam’ gala on October 14/15, with all three visiting engines having links with the region. The first was ex-Alexandra Docks Railway Avonside 0-4-0ST No. 1340 Trojan, making a rare visit away from its Didcot Railway Centre home. As well as working around the docks at Newport, Trojan was allocated to Cardiff Cathays and Radyr sheds during its time in GWR service. The second visitor was ex-Steel Company of Wales Bagnall 0-6-0ST No. 401 from the North Tyneside Steam Railway, with the final guest being Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway-based Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Rosyth No. 1. The line-up was completed by DFR residents ‘Small Prairie’ No. 5541 and ‘8750’ 0-6-0PT No. 9681. In addition to a busy…

BRITAIN’S NEWEST steam locomotive – double Fairlie James Spooner – was officially launched into traffic at the Ffestiniog Railway on October 20. First announced in late March 2016, the 0‑4‑4‑0T has been built to take the place in the FR’s running fleet of 1979‑built double Fairlie Earl of Merioneth – the first full-size steam locomotive built in the preservation era – as the locomotive requires significant mechanical repairs before it can return to service. The new locomotive pays homage to the original James Spooner of 1872 and incorporates Victorian‑era design features – specifically stovepipe chimneys, boiler-mounted bells, square sand boxes and an open cab – from the FR’s early double Fairlies, particularly 1879‑built Merddin Emrys in its as‑built form. James Spooner also features a new design of boiler, based on…

JUST OVER a year after it was withdrawn from traffic in October 2022, the overhaul of Amberley Museum’s Bagnall 2-4-0T Polar Bear is making good progress. Following the despatch of the ex-Groudle Glen Railway locomotive’s boiler to Bennett Boilers of Highbridge, Somerset, in January (SR541), the 1905-built engine’s frames have been stripped down to their component parts. The frames, cylinders, frame stretchers, smokebox saddle, and bufferbeams have been needle-gunned and painted in grey primer, with other components being worked on nearby. The running plates have shown signs of wastage, and will be replaced as required. A party tent has been erected in Polar Bear’s running shed to create a more comfortable, dust-free environment in which to work on the locomotive, Meanwhile, the overhauled boiler is expected back in Sussex in…

SMALL TANK engines proved to be a big draw at the Mid-Hants Railway’s Autumn Steam Gala on October 6-8, with visitor numbers 20% up on last year’s event. Arguably the star of the show was the Bluebell Railway’s LBSCR ‘A1’ 0-6-0T No. 72 Fenchurch. Joining the 1872-built locomotive was another pre-Grouping veteran, ex-LNWR ‘Coal Tank’ No. 1054, visiting courtesy of the National Trust and the Bahamas Locomotive Society, following its recent attendance at the Pontypool & Blaenavon Railway’s 40th anniversary gala. The final guest locomotive was yet another tank engine, 1951-built Bagnall 0-6-0ST Steel Company of Wales No. 401, attending courtesy of the North Tyneside Steam Railway. Three more tank engines also featured in the active line-up: resident Ivatt ‘2MT’ 2-6-2T No. 41312 (reunited with No. 401, following their appearance…

STOP and Examine EVERYTHING COMES to an end, and this is the last Stop and Examine I will write before I move off to pastures new at a certain tank museum in Dorset. I am no longer an industry insider, but I am still a very interested and engaged industry outsider. The last two sentences should identify me to most, but if you haven’t guessed by now, I write this article as the outgoing CEO of the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Chris Price. The last few years writing this article for Steam Railway have allowed me the privilege to write things I couldn’t always say officially, and it has afforded me a certain freedom. I must thank Chris and the team at Steam Railway for letting me do that. Some…

GET IN TOUCH Steam Railway, Media House, Lynchwood, Peterborough PE2 6EA steam.railway@bauermedia.co.uk or www.facebook.com/steamrailway STAR LETTER Western Region supported Butlin’s sale I would like to comment on the letter from David Ward ‘Let’s remember the men who created the National Collection’. The letter clearly makes some excellent points but is factually very incorrect in the statement that Sir Billy Butlin was given a negative response by the Western Region in a request made to buy a ‘King’. "THEN CAME THE BOMBSHELL: BUTLIN’S HAD PULLED OUT" At this time, my late father William John Mayo, always known as ‘John’, was the Chief Rolling Stock Officer of the Western Region, being based in the General Manager’s office at Paddington. The potential sale of a ‘King’ to Butlin’s was a topic he knew…

When the pit-head wheels at Littleton Colliery in Cannock, Staffordshire stopped spinning for the last time on December 3 1993, it brought the curtain down on over a century of coal mining in the Cannock Chase area. Little now remains of the colliery, or the others that comprised the mining operations in the locality, but a small band of volunteers at the Chasewater Railway (CR) have made sure that its wagon fleet still flies the flag for the region’s history. The project began when long-standing CR volunteer Bill Owen wanted a wagon to run behind his recently restored Simplex engine Ubique. “I’d just restored Ubique and I wanted a nice little wagon to go with it. Then I did the first one, the Conduit Colliery wagon, and the [then] chairman…

GET IN TOUCH Got an event you want to be included? email steam.railway@bauermedia.co.uk SANTA AND SEASONAL TRAINS 2023 ALN VALLEY RAILWAY: December 9/10, 16/17. AMBERLEY MUSEUM: December 2/3, 9/10, 16/17. AMERTON RAILWAY: December 2/3, 9/10, 16/17, 23/24. APEDALE VALLEY RAILWAY: December 9/10, 16/17, 23, 27. AVON VALLEY RAILWAY: November 25/26. December 2, 9/10, 16/17, 19-24. BALA LAKE RAILWAY: December 9/10. BATTLEFIELD LINE: November 25/26. December 2/3, 9/10, 16/17, 23/24, 28-January 1 BLUEBELL RAILWAY: November 17-19, 24-26. December 1-3, 6-10, 13-17, 19-24, 38-30. BODMIN RAILWAY: December 2/3, 9/10, 16/17, 21-24. BO’NESS & KINNEIL RAILWAY: December 2/3, 9/10, 16/17, 23/24, 30/31. BREDGAR & WORMSHILL LIGHT RAILWAY: December 2/3, 9/10. BRESSINGHAM MUSEUM: December 2/3, 9/10, 16/17, 21-24. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY CENTRE: November 25/26. December 2/3, 9/10, 16/17. BURE VALLEY RAILWAY: December 2-4, 9/10, 16-24,…