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Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers
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THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…
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Bleak winters on the Highland Line
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Have you ever wondered what it must have been like to experience from a locomotive footplate the fearsome challenges posed by the snowy winters of the Scottish Highlands? Ian Lamb shares with us the memories of the legendary Jimmy Gray, who passed away recently at the grand old age of 94. A background of wonderful…
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Skytrex – the Next Generation!
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Pete Kelly visits the reborn Loughborough firm of Skytrex (2013) Ltd, which produces ever-expanding ranges of O and OO-scale model railway buildings and accessories in both resin and white metal. Skytrex (2013) Ltd was created from assets purchased from the administrators when the original firm of Skytrex Ltd went into administration in the summer of…
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And now for something a little different…
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Pete Kelly uncovers a treasured cache of Alphagraphix buildings from his OO-scale ‘Slagdyke’ layout that was dismantled and boxed up almost five years ago. While rooting through boxes and boxes of OO-scale buildings from my stored ‘Slagdyke’ layout recently, I came across a number of almost-forgotten structures that I’d built up from Alphagraphix kits. Run…
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Colourful N-gauge wagons from Pennine
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Pennine Wagons, who supply limited-edition ready-to-run N-gauge wagons by mail order via the internet, have just taken delivery of two new special commission wagons. These latest additions to the range are wooden-bodied open wagons made by Peco, one a seven-plank wagon in the livery of British Insulated & Helsby Cables Ltd, and the other a…
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Back to Buntingford
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Pete Fowler first thought about building an OO-scale layout of the former Buntingford branch terminus in Hertfordshire 30 years ago, but was put off by the lack of information then available. The internet has changed all that – and Pete Kelly brings this progress report on a charming and atmospheric layout in progress. Imagine the…
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New livery for Freightliner’s second batch of MWAs
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The classic British Racing green adopted in the late-1990s has been retired.
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FEBRUARY 2019
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FEATURES A GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTUREUsing virtual reality to train rail engineers. MANCHESTER VICTORIA 175The station celebrates a major milestone. WESTERN DIESELS60 years of change on the Western Region. 0-60: CLASS 444Third rail but second rate? THEN & NOW: MILTON KEYNES Spot the difference over 10 years. REGULARS SUBSCRIPTION OFFERSThe best ways to get Rail…
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Lady Diana Spencer to return to the main line
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No. 47712 Lady Diana Spencer is set to return to the main line during 2019.
