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TRACTION 232 AND TRACTION MODELLING


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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 of
repeating itself. Just as in 2016, when Britain’s railways are suffering from a shortage of
rolling 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 multiple
units 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 90
workings, including some of his timing logs.

 

‘CREWE’ was a favourite location for enthusiasts back in the 1980s when there were plenty
of locomotive hauled trains and, not surprisingly, photographer Gavin Morrison was often
there to record the scene.

 

David J. Hayes concludes his article about what was probably the longest running freight
service in Britain, which runs between the South West and the Potteries. In ‘REMEMBERING
THE ‘CLAYLINER’’, the post-Speedlink years are considered.

 

Another article that reaches its conclusion in this issue is ‘LIFE AT WILLESDEN TRACTION
MAINTENANCE DEPOT’ by Mick Humphrys, who reveals much of interest about how major
depots like this worked.

 

Jeff Nicholls is back in Poland again, but this time he has a cab ride in a diesel locomotive
hauling a passenger train. ‘DRIVING SU45-247: ANOTHER POLISH ADVENTURE’ reveals a
railway world very different from Britain.

 

In ‘RAIL ROVER 1988: PART 2’, Gavin Bland continues his nostalgic journey around the
Midlands and north of England as he tries to have as much locomotive haulage as possible
despite the ‘Sprinters’ spreading across the network.

 

North of the Scottish border, Hugh Dougherty looks at diesel traction on ‘THE
STRANRAER ROAD’. It’s hard to believe that the Class 156 has now been in use on the
Glasgow to Stranraer line for longer than any other type of diesel power, including the Class
126 DMUs and Class 47 locomotive hauled passenger trains.

 

Colin Boocock tells some cautionary stories about the importance of railwaymen doing a
brake continuity test before a train departs. In ‘ONE FALSE MOVE…’ and the associated
article ‘4S55 – A DISASTER IN THE MAKING’ by driver Gordon Ogden the terrifying
consequences 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 fully
functioning station.

 

TRACTION issue 233 will be on sale on April 1st.
 

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