EVEN the most die-hard supporter of a fully nationalised railway must secretly realise there’s very little prospect now of us ever going back to a British Rail-style era. More than 20 years on from privatisation,
Read moreFinding the sweet spot
Author: swilkinson
UK range launched by Accurascale
FEBRUARY 1 saw Accurascale become the latest manufacturer to enter the UK-outline ready-to-run market, with the unveiling of its first ‘OO’ gauge model. Run by the same four modellers behind Irish Railway Models, Accurascale promises
Read moreMORE USES FOR CARGOWAGGONS
ALTHOUGH steel and other metals were the main traffics to use Cargowaggon flat wagons (February issue), mention was also made of their use for conveying non-metals related commodities, such as sawn timber (e.g. scaffolding boards),
Read more‘EARLY ‘08’ SURVIVOR’
THANKS for printing the picture of LMS diesel shunter No. 7069, which is an early precursor of the Class 08 fleet (Express Mailbag, February issue), as I have worked on the loco and can add
Read more‘Baby Warship’ from Little Loco
FOLLOWING on from its highly successful Class 15, the Little Loco Company has announced it will tackle the North British Class 22 diesel hydraulics as its next BR ready-to-run model in ‘O’ gauge. With the
Read moreMarch 2018
FEATURES TWO ZULU ZERO TWO Life aboard the former Class 121 video survey unit Pandora by one of its technical crew. LOADS OF RUBBISH An in-depth
Read moreUK Railtours abandons ‘Northern Belle’
UK RAILTOURS boss John Farrow has had to relinquish using the ‘Northern Belle’ set of carriages for his luxury-end tours. This has come about because of the sale of the carriages by Belmond to a
Read more‘Bones’ of contention
IT is now 15 years since a Class 58 last ran under its own power in Britain. The date was March 19, 2003 when Nos. 58041+58043 ran light engine from Eastleigh to Dollands Moor on
Read moreTwo Zulu Zero Two
WHILE most of British Rail’s first generation DMU fleet was phased out of operation by the mid-1990s, the Class 121 ‘Bubble Cars’ proved too useful to be completely discarded and many passed to the departmental
Read moreBoden Rail moves to Nottingham
THE long-expected exodus of locomotives from Washwood Heath finally occurred during January, ahead of the former Alstom site being handed over to HS2 for redevelopment, the land eventually being destined to house the high
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