RMweb Premium steverabone Posted January 29, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 29, 2016 TRACTION 232 is published on Friday 5th February. Read about its contents below. One of the interesting things about Britain’s railways is that history often has a habit ofrepeating itself. Just as in 2016, when Britain’s railways are suffering from a shortage ofrolling stock and the need to use locomotives on trains in the North West, Wales and Scotland,so it was twelve years ago, when locomotive hauled trains had to replace electric multipleunits on some services to Northampton from London. In ‘THE EUSTON TO NORTHAMPTON‘COBBLERS’ IN 2004 AND 2005’ Nick Ross presents his detailed records of the Class 90workings, including some of his timing logs. ‘CREWE’ was a favourite location for enthusiasts back in the 1980s when there were plentyof locomotive hauled trains and, not surprisingly, photographer Gavin Morrison was oftenthere to record the scene. David J. Hayes concludes his article about what was probably the longest running freightservice in Britain, which runs between the South West and the Potteries. In ‘REMEMBERINGTHE ‘CLAYLINER’’, the post-Speedlink years are considered. Another article that reaches its conclusion in this issue is ‘LIFE AT WILLESDEN TRACTIONMAINTENANCE DEPOT’ by Mick Humphrys, who reveals much of interest about how majordepots like this worked. Jeff Nicholls is back in Poland again, but this time he has a cab ride in a diesel locomotivehauling a passenger train. ‘DRIVING SU45-247: ANOTHER POLISH ADVENTURE’ reveals arailway world very different from Britain. In ‘RAIL ROVER 1988: PART 2’, Gavin Bland continues his nostalgic journey around theMidlands and north of England as he tries to have as much locomotive haulage as possibledespite the ‘Sprinters’ spreading across the network. North of the Scottish border, Hugh Dougherty looks at diesel traction on ‘THESTRANRAER ROAD’. It’s hard to believe that the Class 156 has now been in use on theGlasgow to Stranraer line for longer than any other type of diesel power, including the Class126 DMUs and Class 47 locomotive hauled passenger trains. Colin Boocock tells some cautionary stories about the importance of railwaymen doing abrake continuity test before a train departs. In ‘ONE FALSE MOVE…’ and the associatedarticle ‘4S55 – A DISASTER IN THE MAKING’ by driver Gordon Ogden the terrifyingconsequences of not doing so are made graphically obvious. In TRACTION MODELLING Alex Fisher gives a suggestion for a small layout based on‘COHEN’S SCRAPYARD – TINSLEY’. At the opposite end of the space spectrum is the superb 4mm scale layout ‘GRISEDALE by Edmund Kinder. It’s a Settle and Carlisle based idea – a cross between Garsdale and Hellifield - with some truly superb details. What’s particularly interesting for TRACTION readers is that the layout has initially been built to represent the run down early diesel years, with a derelict steam shed and boarded up station windows. Later,the layout is to be backdated to the steam era with the dereliction replaced with a fullyfunctioning station. TRACTION issue 233 will be on sale on April 1st. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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