2018 Railway Modeller Special

[Butler Henderson]

So having received a complimentary copy here is a list of its contents

Frontispiece - Chee Tor 2mmFS (1 page)

Welcome - editorial (1 page)

Contents (1 page)

Gardsdale Head - Post privatisation N gauge layout (8 pages + photo on front cover)

Rapido Trains journey to the UK (8 pages + photo on contents page)

Moving the Gold - 10 pages on China Clay traffic (real and layouts)

Polhendra Clay Works - 1980s/1990s OO layout (6 pages + photo on contents page)

Station Forecourts (8 pages + photo on contents page)

Warmington - 1959/1960 OO layout (6 pages + photo on back cover)

Review of the year - model releases etc (12 pages)

TT Gauge - Ripe for a Revival? (6 pages)

Rails through the Dales - Midland Mainline to Manchester (10 pages)

High Speed Twilight - HSTs (10 pages + photos on contents page and back cover)

My life at Hornby and other things - Simon Kolher (4 pages)

Bostin Parkway - Post privatisation OO layout (6 pages + photo on Welcome page)

Glenfinnan - 1970s /1 1980s OO layout (9 pages)

Layout in a guitar case - Stourscombe Vale N gauge (3 pages)

And finally - HST,33,50 (1 page)

 

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[Stevelewis]

Picked  one  up  today  £6.99  WHSmith

 

Not  Bad  

[Legend]

Actually it’s a very good read. Got it last week and still reading. I don’t think there’s a single article in it I don’t have some interest in

[Stevelewis]

I have  just  relived  part  of  my  earlier  existance!!

 

Read  the  10 page  article   RAILS  THROUGH  THE DALES,   The  route  from  Ambergate  to  Chinley,      Many a  Sunday  afternoon  myself  and  a friend  would  Board a London St Pancras  bound  bound  train  at  Manchester  Central,  and  travel  as  far  a  Millers  Dales,  usually  buying  a  cheese-roll or  two  from  the  refreshment  trolley,  the  train  was  usually  Jubilee  hauled  and  I  remember  fondly  the  way  it  seemed to  hurtle down  the   downgrade  to Millers  Dale.  I am  not  exactly  sure  what  the  speed  would have been, but  it  was  probably  the  fastest that  we  had  ever  travelled at ( my Dads   Ford Popular rarely  achieved 50MPH  and  Concorde  came  much later!)

 

At  Millers  Dale  we  would take  the  DMU shuttle  to  Buxton, I was always surprised  at  the  number of  other  passengers who  took this  route  to  Buxton instead of  using  the  faster  Manchester  London Road to Buxton service,  We had   a  quick wander  around  the  town  then  rode  back home  towards  Manchester  London Road............. ( Piccadilly) on a  DMU

 

We would  normally  alight  At  Levenshulme  North  ( we  lived in Levenshulme,  in  sight   and  sound  of  the  Manchester  Crewe line  and  very  close  to Levenshulme  South ( ER) as  well

 

Happy Days  ........Thanks  to RM    for  the  article.

Edited October 28, 2017 by Stevelewis

[rue_d_etropal]

Picked up a copy, fine if your main interest is standard gauge, but would have liked to have one article about narrow gauge, especially as Peco now have a good OO9 range. Alsoa small9less than one page), bit on different scales and gauges. All it would need is a simple table format. It could be tied to what track gauges/scales Peco do, and therefore show some how they can adapt standard products for different scales.