Old Glory

If you love the spectacle of immaculately-restored old machinery, or are fascinated by Britain’s rich industrial and transport heritage, Old Glory is the magazine for you! In vivid detail it brings back all the sights and sounds of yesteryear. Glorious showman’s engines belt out the amperes to drive historic fairground rides; pairs of mighty steam ploughing engines turn the soil; steam rollers make up roads once more; tram wheel flanges squeal through town and city streets; colourful working narrowboats ply the canals; dray horses deliver good ale to the pubs; vintage tractors cough into life; stationary engines turn over tirelessly and the commercial vehicles we used to know take to the road again. This magazine covers these magnificent steam engines that once powered this nation. Whether you’re interested in the latest news, stories of steam engines saved from obscurity, upcoming events or detailed features on the history of these wonderful machines you’ll find it in Old Glory.

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KERR, STUART 0-4-0ST SHINES AT FOXFIELD • David Reed travelled to the Foxfield Railway near Stoke-on-Trent to see the Transport Trust award-winning 1926 Kerr, Stuart 0-4-0ST locomotive, and met its owner Jack Dibnah.

MERRICK’S FIRST ENGINE

COLLEEN ENTERS THE WORKS

STAR MOVES TO SCOTLAND

PICKFORDS’ WALLIS CHANGES HANDS

VCC SPRING OPENER 2025

WALKER CRASHES WHILE ON THE CHASE

DOROTHY’S WOLSELEY IS BACK!

MODEL NEWS • Mike Neale takes his monthly look at recently released diecast models, this month featuring Box Vans, Police Vans, Tractors and Mini Mokes, in 1/48, 1/43, 1/32 and 1/18 scale.

RARE BRISTOL LHS6L DEBUTS AT DETLING • The 12th South East Bus Festival was back to its best as I counted 136 buses and coaches at the South Eastern Bus Festival on Saturday 5 April at the Kent County Showground, Detling, Maidstone, writes the editor.

GLORIOUS WEATHER AT BODLE STREET GREEN • Owing to the Bodle Street Green village hall being previously booked on the last Sunday in April, FBHVC Drive It Day, it was decided to stage the BSG Charity Drive It Day event in East Sussex on Sunday 6 April this year.

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STEAM ‘ROCK STARS’ AT HEART OF HOPETOWN S&DR FESTIVAL • Three locomotives – described by Darlington Borough Council as ‘railway rock stars of the past’ – are the centre of a new exhibition, which opened on 4 April and is set to run until 22 June as part of the town’s S&DR200 Festival, celebrating the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.

GREAT WEATHER ON NATIONAL & SO MUCH MORE! • It was thought the National Vintage Tractor Road Run had hit the buffers in 2024, but Vanda and Ray Parcell from Bourn, Cambridge stepped forward to keep it going in 2025. It was over 20 years ago they staged the National in Cambridgeshire, but it never had been staged in Suffolk, but the happy couple and family stepped forward to change all that. However Vanda’s major sponsor pulled out and Cheffins kindly stepped in to support the event. Their Cheffins 200-year charity raffle 1962 Fordson Super Dexta was here on the beaver-tail lorry, which picked up Jamie Croft whose Standard Fordson N had magneto problems – the replacement was no better either!

DOWN IN THE WOODS • We travelled to the Whiligh Estate near Ticehurst, East Sussex on Saturday 15 March, to witness the extraction of three amazing over 250-year old oak tree trunks that had been selected for their straight buttress and...