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When I last renewed my aquaintance with an LMS Class 5 locomotive it was with No.5428 on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and I occasioned to note that it was one of those to come from Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co.Ltd. and thus but one delive

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A mid-Victorian Chairman of the Great Northern Railway was reputed to have commented that there was no money in stations. True enough, GNR stations were generally of more austere design than say contemporary Midland Railway ones. This attitude persis

The Great Northern Railway received tenders for the construction of the eighteen miles of Lincolnshire line between Lincoln and Honington Junction on 23rd May 1864. En route it was to pass through the parish of Caythorpe. Caythorpe Hall was the home

The author does not believe in ghosts but he knows that human beings can be extremely unreliable witnesses of strange phenomena they claim to have seen or experienced. Some people are not above inventing stories about their ‘ghostly’ experiences in o