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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…

  • 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…

  • New livery for Freightliner’s second batch of MWAs

    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.

  • 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…

  • Lady Diana Spencer to return to the main line

    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.

  • Cumbrian Coast Express ‘Tractors’ bow out

    Cumbrian Coast Express ‘Tractors’ bow out

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    December saw the last loco-hauled workings by Northern on the Cumbrian Coast route.

  • Could there be a return to the ‘Big Four’?

    Could there be a return to the ‘Big Four’?

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    The Williams Review has become mired in intense lobbying from a generation of past experts.

  • Narrow and minimum gauge at Warley show

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    FULL-sized narrow gauge exhibits at the November 23-25 Warley Model Railway Exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC featured Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway’s Davey Paxman 4-6-2 No. 2 Northern Chief and 4-8-2 No. 6 Samson, together with the line’s Royal Saloon coach, War Office Locomotive Trust’s Hunslet 4-6-0T WDLR No. 303 and Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell, Clarke ‘P’ class 0-6-0T…

  • Narrow and minimum gauge at Warley show

    Narrow and minimum gauge at Warley show

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    FULL-sized narrow gauge exhibits at the November 23-25 Warley Model Railway Exhibition at Birmingham’s NEC featured Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway’s Davey Paxman 4-6-2 No. 2 Northern Chief and 4-8-2 No. 6 Samson, together with the line’s Royal Saloon coach, War Office Locomotive Trust’s Hunslet 4-6-0T WDLR No. 303 and Statfold Barn Railway’s Hudswell, Clarke ‘P’ class 0-6-0T…

  • New boiler for Darent

    New boiler for Darent

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    A NEW boiler barrel is being built for Hampton & Kempton Waterworks Railway’s (H&KWR) resident steam loco Andrew Barclay 0-4-0ST Darent. The chassis is undergoing overhaul at London Museum of Water & Steam (RM Oct), withthe boiler having been sent to A G Bicknell & Co Ltd for assessment and repair. The smokebox, front tube…

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