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14Swiss Winter Wonderland Cliff Thomas samples the delights of a country where narrow gauge railways definitely do not slumber when the snow falls.

19Welsh Highland Heritage Photographs from an era when closure was widely seen as inevitable.

20A Tale of Three Tanks The trio of County Donegal locomotives that have defied all the odds and remain as a reminder of the line’s glory days.

22Forest Survivor James Waite visits Viseu de Sus and the last of Romania’s once numerous forestry railways.

26Gala Time at South Tynedale Photographs by Dave Hewitt of a ‘very

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28Steam Locomotives at Penrhyn Andrew Neale looks at the many delightful engines that once worked at the world’s biggest slate quarry.

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