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New Miniature Steam Train
A new steam miniature train is in operation on the Skegness Railway.
The new attraction is the “Commodore Vanderbilt” – a 4-6-4 Pacific minature steam locomotive which was especially built for Skegness by Ernest Dove of Nottingham.
The train proved to be more popular with adults, as 72% of the 75,000 passengers it carried since Easter, were [...]
Jolly Fisherman Steam Train
Thousands of sightseers lined the railway line from Nottingham to Skegness on Saturday to catch a glimpse of the “Jolly Fisherman” steam train.
Barring a demonstration run earlier this month, this was the first time a steam train had worked its way along the Skegness line for 25 years and some even perched themselves on top [...]
Jolly Fisherman Steam Train 100th Birthday Video
It was full steam ahead for the Jolly Fisherman Steam Train when the Jolly Fisherman service blasted out of Keighley, Bradford, behind two diesel locomotives – a pair of class 20s – that used to operate the train in the 1980s and 90s.
Picture by kind permission of moonhead
The Jolly Fisherman service started operating in 1908 [...]
Victorian Steam Thresher
Grain from corn has many uses including making bread, beer and feeding to animals. But first, the grain has to be extracted from the straw and chaff, This is called ‘threshing’.
Hundreds of years ago, people used to thresh corn by beating by hand. This was a very time consuming and tiring job.
During the reign of [...]
