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TRACTION 235, the September/ October 2016 issue, is published on Friday 5th August.

 

I’m sure that I’m not the only enthusiast to be delighted that one of our major railway routes is to revert to locomotive haulage. The news that TransPennine Express has ordered thirteen five-car train sets to be hauled by Class 68s on the route between Liverpool and Newcastle and, later, on services to Scarborough and Middlesbrough, means that in a few years’ time it will be possible to experience regular loco haulage across the north of England. The thought of 3800 hp blasting north from York every hour is certain to raise haulage fans’ spirits!

Most enthusiasts have had one of those days when you’ve travelled a long way to watch railway operations and not had quite the experience you had hoped for. Back in 1974, Bill Jamieson travelled from Wakefield to Wellingborough to take photographs near Sharnbrook. He’d travelled over 231 miles but only took four shots as the location and light conditions didn’t inspire him. However, what superb photographs they were as you’ll see in ‘SHARNBROOK 1974 - 231 MILES FOR FOUR SHOTS!’

Locomotive depots have always held great interest for anyone interested in railways and few had the same degree of importance as ‘CREWE DIESEL DEPOT’. Alex Fisher takes us through the history of this depot in the first of a series of articles about major depots.

The Class 25s, whilst being rather mundane locomotives, had quite a following, especially in their later years. Mick Humphrys, who now drives ‘Pendolinos’ , regards them as his favourite diesel class. He describes his experiences around north London in ‘CLASS 25 SULZERS - "WHO'S ON THE BIG ENGINE?"’

For this issue’s article about locomotive performance we look at something rather unusual: freight train operation. Back in the days of Speedlink preserved diesel locomotives were often moved around the country in those freight trains. In ‘DELTICS IN FREIGHT TRAINS’ by ‘Haymarket 64B’ a window is opened into the ‘secret’ world of timing freight services.

Probably one of the most dramatic of the liveries the Class 37s have carried was the black and orange of Loadhaul. Gavin Morrison has selected some of his photographs of ‘LOADHAUL CLASS 37s’.

The importance of the technical side of railway operations is described by Colin Boocock in ‘BEARINGS AND JOURNALS’. It’s another example of the care that has to go into every aspect of maintenance for the railway to work successfully.

The Middleton Railway in Leeds has quite a collection of industrial diesels, including the former LMS 7051 which was the first purpose-built British diesel shunting locomotive. Ian Smith describes three different locomotives from the railway’s stock in ‘MIDDLETON RAILWAY DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES’

Back in the 1950s forty 1500V dc electric locomotives were built by Metropolitan Vickers in Stockton-on-Tees for operations in Australia. They shared many parts with the EM1 and EM2 locomotives used on the Woodhead line and had the same distinctive sound. Stephen Miller describes their life in ‘THE NEW SOUTH WALES 46 CLASS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES’.

TRACTION MODELLING features a superb layout set in the Bristol area. ‘PEAFORE YARD’, by Robert Owst, shows just what can be achieved in a small area and uses several visual tricks to give the impression of being part of a much larger world.

Following on from the ‘Black Country Blues’ layout featured in TRACTION 234, Andy York describes the simple techniques he used to weather a rake of Bachmann TEA oil tankers.

 

TRACTION 236 will be on sale on 7th October.

 

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