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Prototype HST power car works to North Pole
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THE Mid-Norfolk Railway (MNR) has hired in a loco with electric train heating each year for its popular ‘Polar Express’ trains, and for 2018 this was prototype HST power car No. 41001. It arrived by road from GCR (N) Ruddington on November 20 and worked its first train on the MNR on November 24. The…
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Poignant farewell to semaphore signals in north Humberside
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THE use of semaphore signalling came to an end in north Humberside on November 23 when the old system was finally switched out on the line between Ferriby, Gilberdyke and Saltmarshe. The delayed decommissioning of the old system took place after the passing of the final train that evening. It forms part of Network Rail’s…
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First trains run over electrified Dunblane and Alloa routes
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SCOTRAIL Class 380 EMU No. 380004 became the first train to use the newly electrified Stirling-Dunblane-Alloa lines on November 27 when it completed a successful early-hours trial to both Dunblane and Alloa. The trial paved the way for the full introduction of ScotRail electric services on the line from December 9, including the new Class 385s.…
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New platform 0 for Leeds in latest city investment
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LEEDS station will receive an additional platform as part of a £161million investment programme to improve train journeys and the functionality of the station. Current platforms 1-6 are to be lengthened to cater for longer trains, but it is the creation of a new platform 0 in the site of the current long-stay car park…
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West Sussex Diddly’s Miniature Railway closes
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It was opened in 1965 as a normal, steam-operated 9½in-gauge railway.
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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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