Editor's Page
Category: Narrow Gauge World | By Andrew Charman | May 13 2012 | 9:20 pm
Tagged Under : Ffestiniog, Hinslet, Hugh Napier, narrow gauge, Rheidol, Sittingbourne
Apologies, the blog is a little late this week – it’s been a busy week! First, an important piece of news, and very welcome too. The Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway will reopen over its full length, including the iconic Sittingbourne concrete viaduct, on Sunday 27th May. It should have happened at Easter – but…
Category: Narrow Gauge World | By Andrew Charman | May 4 2012 | 3:02 pm
Tagged Under : Beamish, narrow gauge, Penrhyn, quarry, Vale of Rheidol, Winifred
It seems impossible to write of any narrow-gauge happenings without mentioning the word Penrhyn at present, and yes that name is going to feature again this week! In my last blog I reported first-hand from the arrival at the Bala Lake Railway of ex-Penrhyn Hunslet ‘Winifred’, following 47 years exile in the United States. Well…
Category: Narrow Gauge World | By Andrew Charman | April 28 2012 | 2:16 pm
Tagged Under : Bala Lake, Hunslet, narrow gauge, Penrhyn, quarry, Winifred
It has been an interesting couple of days. Yesterday I was invited to see the return home of a very Welsh loco, after 47 years hidden from view, in a warehouse, in America. We were disappointed, but today, as the lead picture shows, former Penrhyn Quarry Hunslet 0-4-0ST ‘Winifred’ is settling into her new home…
Category: Narrow Gauge World | By Andrew Charman | April 16 2012 | 3:27 pm
Well that’s another issue of Narrow Gauge World off to the printer and time to take a breather before thinking about the next one. Your Editor has just finished a pretty hectic deadline period – some might know that among the other things I do alongside editing NGW is the page makeup for the magazine’s…
Category: Narrow Gauge World | By Neil Sayer | March 30 2012 | 12:34 pm
Welcome back to the Editor’s blog – I’ve been guilty of neglecting this feature of the website but I intend to post rather more regularly in future – especially as there is some superb narrow gauge news around at present. The news is very much topped by the fact that as this is being written…
Category: Narrow Gauge World | By Andrew Charman | May 25 2011 | 8:57 am
Welcome to my Editor page on the all-new Atlantic website – here I plan to post thoughts and news snippets on a regular basis and give you a flavour of what you can expect in the next issue of Narrow Gauge World. Our next issue, due at the end of June, will certainly have an…
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