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  • Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

    Southwold’s Blyth Valley Light Railway opens for passengers

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    THE 7¼in-gauge Blyth Valley Light Railway (BVLR) at the Southwold Railway Trust’s ‘Steamworks’ in Blyth Road, Southwold, Suffolk, opened for passengers, along with the centre, on July 14. It runs around part of the one-acre site, but it is planned to enhance the layout and add more facilities for passengers and stock. A carriage shed…

  • Skytrex – the Next Generation!

    Skytrex – the Next Generation!

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    Go behind the scenes at Skytrex, which produce O and OO-scale model railway buildings.

  • Feature | St Ann’s Cove: Groping in the dark

    Feature | St Ann’s Cove: Groping in the dark

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    Pete Kelly tells of the latest progress on RMM’s N-scale project layout, ‘St Ann’s Cove’.

  • Tales From Knottewithought Junction: The Dedicated Traveller

    Tales From Knottewithought Junction: The Dedicated Traveller

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    He never left the train, even when it was shunted into the sidings at the end of the day.

  • 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.…


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