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Running-in your new model locomotive
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Many readers will have received new model locomotives for Christmas – but they need to be carefully prepared for use, and running-in is an important part of ensuring years of reliable service, writes Nigel Burkin. ‘Running-in’ or ‘breaking-in’ new models is a perennial subject, and one that comes to the fore around Christmas. Many people…
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Those lovely model cab details – but what does everything do?
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Anyone who models the steam era cannot have failed to notice the ever-growing complexity of cab detailing in recent years — but what are the real-life functions of all of those levers, gauges and pipes? Craig Amess visits the Swindon & Cricklade Railway to find out for himself on the footplate of 56XX 0-6-2T No.…
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A Settle & Carlisle goods shed in ‘N’
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Pete Kelly spends an absorbing weekend putting together a well-detailed Metcalfe building kit from a series of buildings based around the legendary Settle & Carlisle line that are also available in the even more richly detailed OO scale. Just like model trains, card kit buildings are becoming more sophisticated by the day – and one…
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Retaining heritage skills for the future
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The third feature in our series about Severn Valley Railway apprentices focuses on Ryan Parsons, who is building a new boiler for an Isle of Man loco. IN THE Severn Valley Railway’s (SVR) boiler shop at Bridgnorth, improver boilersmith Ryan Parsons is tacklinga new-build boiler. An improver grade is the first level for qualified employees…
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‘Highline’ for London?
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After the success of New York’s ‘High Line’ project, which converted a disused railway in to a hugely popular pedestrian walkway, Keith Fender looks at plans to bring a similar project to London. NEW York was by no means the first city to develop a linear urban park based on an old railway line. Paris…
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Railway relics
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Steve Ryszka presents another selection of railway architecture images showing erstwhile railway company names, crests and signs, which still provide a reminder of the halcyon days of railways. View more images in the January 2019 issue of The RM – on sale now!
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Shirebrook diesel depot
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Robin Stewart-Smith remembers the busy Nottinghamshire motive power depot which, in its heyday, provided locos for many coal trains emanating from local collieries. SHIREBROOK Diesel Depot officially opened in June 1965 as a new-build ‘running shed’ resulting from the BR’s Modernisation Plans. It was ideally placed to service the diesel locomotive fleet that worked the…
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The ‘Lanky’ devotee who saved… Southern engines
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Worth Valley founding father Richard Greenwood has followed steam for a lifetime, both at the lineside and in the thick of preservation. He tells his remarkable life story to Howard Johnston. As he strolls quietly through Haworth yard at his beloved Keighley & Worth Valley Railway (KWVR), Richard Greenwood has good reason to be satisfied…
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A look around the docks on the Ribble Steam Railway
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Craig Amess discovers what’s on offer at the Ribble Steam Railway in Preston, and the railway preservation events that led to its opening in 2005.
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John M Rodway’s Tales From Knottewithought Junction
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John Rodway opens the door to a model railway Neverland in the first of a regular series of short stories.
