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Your Editor is touring Czechia this week. Here we see electric Class 210 No. 210 023, built 1972/3, at Lipno nad Vltavou on 2024-06-09 having worked the the branch from Rybnik. The line is in the south of the country, near the Austrian border, and opened in 1911 for the purpose of hauling timber. It has always been electrified - originally at 1200V DC using its own hydro power. It was later used during the construction of a larger hydro project and, in 1955, coverted to the standard 1500V DC.
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An important railway station and a canal junction (circled) in this map from c.1900. Where is it?
Please identify the locomotive, and where it is.
Answer: "Puffing Billy" replica at Barrow Hill. Image credit: Ray Reed RCTS Collection. Congratulations are due to the following for their correct answers: Paul Hopper, Simon Wass, Andrew Treves, Dave Goodyear, John Musselwhite, Bryn Pitcher.
The original Puffing Billy (built 1813) still survives at The Scence Museum, London, but a working replica was commissioned by the Beamish Museum in the North East in 2002. It first ran in 2006, visited the Netherlands in 2007, and is seen here in steam on 25th August 2008 at Barrow Hill Roundhouse museum.
On another occasion, Barrow Hill was the venue for the naming ceremony on 27th August 2022 of Class 69 69003 The Railway Observer. Image credits: Alan Buckett (above) and Paul Chancellor (below).
I'm holding an RCTS headboard with Rev. Canon Brian Arman.
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