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Author Archives: Bob Gwynne
Bringing the Prototype HST back to life
January 2012, and the prototype High Speed Train power car is getting closer and closer to roaring back into life thanks to the hard work of the 125 Group, the benevolent staff of East Midlands Trains at their Neville Hill … Continue reading
Posted in Rail vehicle collections
Tagged high speed train, hst, loco, locomotive, museum, rail, railway, trains, transport, transportation
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Mallard 75: moving a loco 75 feet sideways and 1800 miles east
How to move something that weighs over 100 tons 75 feet sideways and then about 1800 miles to Halifax, Canada – over twice the distance from Lands End to John O’Groats? So that then all you need to do is … Continue reading
Posted in Mallard 75, Rail vehicle collections
Tagged canada, dominion of canada, eisenhower, wisconsin
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The HST prototype project: strides forward
40 years ago the High Speed Train was delivered from concept to testing in only 22 months. 40 years later, the 125 Group’s Project Miller – the restoration to working order of the surviving original HST prototype power car, number … Continue reading
Preparing for Railfest
This is one of a series of blog posts we’ll be bringing you in the run-up to our huge 9-day Railfest 2012 festival in June 2012. More blog posts about Railfest 2012 The sun is shining and a whole team … Continue reading
Posted in Rail vehicle collections, Railfest 2012
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Railfest 2012: readying the prototype HST
This is one of a series of blog posts we’ll be bringing you in the run-up to our huge 9-day Railfest 2012 festival in June 2012. More blog posts about Railfest 2012 Sometimes the idea of working in a museum … Continue reading
Sailing into speculation: Spooner’s Boat – the Mrs Gaskell connection?
This is one of a series of blog posts we’ll be bringing you in the run-up to our huge 9-day Railfest 2012 festival in June 2012. More blog posts about Railfest 2012 Railway history is littered with the most surprising … Continue reading
Railfest 2012 – celebrating speed
This is one of a series of blog posts we’ll be bringing you in the run-up to our huge 9-day Railfest 2012 festival in June 2012. More blog posts about Railfest 2012 When people talk of the ‘greats’ of the … Continue reading
Railfest 2012: from Synolda to Sand Hutton and back again
This is one of a series of blog posts we’ll be bringing you in the run-up to our huge 9-day Railfest 2012 festival in June 2012. More blog posts about Railfest 2012 Before Christmas I found myself in conversation with … Continue reading
