Simplex

  • Final trains operate at Bursledon Brickworks

    Final trains operate at Bursledon Brickworks

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    HAMPSHIRE Narrow Gauge Railway Trust (HNGRT) operated public trains for the final time at Bursledon Brickworks museum, near Southampton, on October 27.  After being actively involved in preservation for 58 years the organisation is now being wound up and its assets distributed to other narrow gauge lines (RM Nov). Operations featured Simplex 8694/1942 Ashby and…

  • Rebuilt Simplex locos still at work in Malaysian palm oil industry

    Rebuilt Simplex locos still at work in Malaysian palm oil industry

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    MALAYSIAN United Plantations Berhad’s (UP) use of rail transport meant it became the first palm oil producer to gain a sustainable palm oil producer certificate.  UP uses a fleet of 700mm-gauge modified Motor Rail Simplex locomotives, originally built in Bedford, which have had their original Dorman engines replaced by more powerful ones made by Deutz,…

  • A railway in BARBADOS AGAIN

    A railway in BARBADOS AGAIN

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    The tiny independent nation of Barbados has an operating railway once more after a gap of more than 80 years. Keith Fender and Glen Beadon look at the Caribbean island’s troubled railway history and the development of the latest venture.  BARBADOS’ first female Prime Minister, the Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, opened a rebuilt railway on the…

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