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10 of the best heritage steam railways

Updated on 29 April 202629 April 2026
Green steam locomotive pulling vintage carriages along a heritage railway line, with clouds of steam rising against a countryside backdrop.

Steam railways are one of Britain’s great acts of cheerful defiance. They are gloriously slow, faintly theatrical, slightly sooty, and all the better for it. …

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