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BOTTOM WORKS SIDINGS - A WOODHEAD SHUNTING LAYOUT
… in the area. This was linked by short branches to both the Midland Railway’s Sheffield to Barnsley line, and the Great … ’Britain’s first all-electric main line’ although Southern Region afficionados will rightly disagree! The sidings see a … ‘OO’, 16.5mm SCALE: 4mm:1ft SIZE(SCENIC): 4ft 5in x 18in REGION: Eastern PERIOD: 1970s CONTROL: DCC, Gaugemaster …
CLASS 769 BI-MODE UNITS
… jumper cables that had been standard on the Southern Region on previous unit designs. There was some criticism … North West England. A further seven found use with London Midland Trains, later being transferred to West Midland Trains. However, the units that remained were …
South Road Junction - Scottish Borders in 'OO'
… GAUGE ‘OO’, 16.5mm SCALE 4mm: 1ft SIZE 8ft x 12ft REGION MIDLAND/SCOTTISH PERIOD 1950s-1960s CONTROL DCC, DIGITRAX … south west Scotland and Carlisle, thus allowing ex-London, Midland & Scottish, London and North Eastern and BR Standard …
Accurascale reveals all-new ‘OO’ gauge BR Mk 1 suburbans
… London King’s Cross as well as working from Euston on the Midland Region and Paddington on the Western Region. Above: Six … on the Eastern, BR Standard and ex-LMS tank engines on the Midland plus a variety of Type 2 diesels including classes …
Appleton Junction - East Coast Main Line in the transition years
… of London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), BR Standard steam … to a location just south of York where the ECML and former Midland Railway lines from Leeds and Sheffield met and ran … East Coast route at Appleton Junction with its ex-Midland Region goods as a passenger service heads south onto the …
KMRC reveals Rapido exclusive
… two at the other. Allocated to British Railways’ London Midland Region, D5702 spent less than ten years in service, allocated …
Operating The Great Central Railway
… with its Poole-Bradford working formed of Southern Region Maunsell corridor stock. We’ve also introduced new … goods after seeing the signals at Quorn Magna are clear. Midland interlopers From 1958 the GCR passed into the control of the Midland Region for its final eight years of operation as a …
Swithland Sidings: Power and operation
… The signals are from the Dapol ready-made range with Midland upper quadrants at Quorn Magna operated by Train-Tech … BR steam era period trains covering both the Eastern and Midland control periods. However, the preservation era does … years of nationalisation as the line stayed under Eastern Region control. However, it wasn’t long before the line …
20T Coke Hopper
By TIM SHACKLETON
… New in from Hornby are these fine models of the London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) built vehicles and the …
Little Bytham - the East Coast Main Line in 'OO'
… the option of having a second, independent railway – the Midland Railway/Midland & Great Northern Railway (MR/M&GNR) east-west route. … which were bigger and heavier than anything the Western Region had and anything up to the London Midland Region …
Farewell to the ‘Bubbles’ Class 121 and 122 DMUs
… ‘Derby Lightweight’ single cars were built for the London Midland Region in 1956, being modified from standard power cars … with BR only three months later. Allocated to the Western Region, they were based at Southall, Reading and Tyseley with …
Final days of the diesel hydraulics
… have been more widely noted and perhaps then the Western Region might have led the way. … One of the shortest-lived … of mainline types having by then been built. The London Midland & Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway had … Paddington to Banbury line was transferred to the London Midland Region which promptly refused to accept …
RECOMMENDED READING
… with brief appearances from a Western Region ‘Hymek’, ‘Westerns’ and classes 33/73/81/84/85/90 too. … as the final years of steam played out on the Eastern Region. Whilst there are no specific chapters, the author has … vans of London and North Eastern Railway, London, Midland & Scottish Railway, Southern Railway and Great …
Unique North British pioneer diesel next for Heljan
… was completed on July 1 1950 and it operated on both the Midland and Southern Regions as well as a brief stint on the Eastern Region. It remained in traffic with BR until 1959 after which … silver with early crests as operated on the Southern and Midland (Cat No. 1080), as 10800 in BR black and silver with …
Hatton’s raises steam for the ‘14XX’
By MIKE WILD
The Great Western Railway’s Collett 0-4-2Ts hold great appeal and potential for model railways – especially when formed into push-pull auto trains. We review the Hattons GWR 14XX 0-4-2T for OO gauge.