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The March issue of The Railway Magazine takes you behind the scenes with the Royal Train, plus HS2’s Crewe extension is given Royal Assent as protesters defy bailiffs. 8 0 years of the Pocket Peckett As Peckett 0-4-0ST Teddy reaches its 80th anniversary, Gary Boyd-Hope looks back over its interesting career, including its connections to a famous ‘steamcleric’. Operating the Royal Train: Part 2 Geoff Griffiths concludes his fascinating look back over his time as RoyalTrain manager, recounting some of the more humorous episodes he witnessed. Merchant Venturer For this month’s Practice ...

A new steam train could be based on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway (GWSR). An agreement has been signed between the railway and Churchward County Trust (CCT), which is building Churchward ‘County’ class 4-4-0 No. 3840 County of Montgomery. The agreement, which supersedes an earlier ‘agreement in principle’ between the GWSR and the CCT, gives the railway first option to be the home of the locomotive when it is completed. This would see the engine based at the railway’s locomotive workshops in Toddington where it would become part of the line’s operating stea...

The Churchward County Trust, which is building a full-size recreation of a Great Western Railway (GWR) ‘County’ class 4-4-0 locomotive named ‘County of Montgomery’, has unveiled the loco’s new nameplates. Forty of the original ‘County’ locos were built between 1904 and 1912, with 11 named after Welsh counties on the GWR network. Montgomeryshire was not included in the GWR’s naming scheme at that time as it was a Cambrian Railways stronghold, but the county found itself at the heart of the GWR following the grouping of railway companies in 1923 when the Cambrian was absor...

Air Education and Training Command, the U.S. Air Force's oldest active command marks its 79th anniversary Jan. 23, making it the First Command as well as...

AETC continues to build on its incredible heritage as the First Command, marked by exceptional Airmen and dedicated professionals who are ready to perform the mission anywhere, anytime.,