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  • Your Gallery | 60163 ‘Tornado’

    Your Gallery | 60163 ‘Tornado’

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    Check out Roger’s pic of the 60163 ‘Tornado’.

  • Locomotive Performance | Then and Now

    Locomotive Performance | Then and Now

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    Don Benn describes the performance of Merchant Navy Pacific No. 35028 Clan Line.

  • Back to Buntingford

    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.

  • Catch a glimpse into the future of high-speed rail

    Catch a glimpse into the future of high-speed rail

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    Spain’s AVE high-speed network is the largest in Europe.

  • Hornby hits the reset button

    Hornby hits the reset button

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    SIMON Kohler’s return to Hornby marks the end of an unstable period in Hornby’s recent history and with it comes a distinct change in strategy which encompasses the best of Hornby tradition and practices which have stood the test of time, at the same time preparing the company for the challenges of a fast-changing hobby.…

  • 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.

  • Great steam engineers of the nineteenth century: PART IIII

    Great steam engineers of the nineteenth century: PART IIII

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    Brian Sharpe outlines how the role of the chief mechanical engineer developed during the 1840s.

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