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Garden Rail 295 - March 2019


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Contents

 

View from the end of the platform

 

The Springfield Line by David Mercer

 

Confessions of a scratch-bash-bodgeller- Locomotives by Rik Bennett

 

Building a canal system by Mike Duffy

 

Magnetic Uncoupling by Steve Howard

 

Moving into steam – Part 2 by Tag Gorton

 

Midlands Garden Rail Show guide

 

Building with Breeze Blocks by Dave Skertchly

 

Building a railbus – Part 2

 

Product News

 

Mailbox/Diary dates

 

Observe to Preserve by Ben Buki

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Our lead layout is The Springfield Line built by David Mercer.  He provided us with lots of fantastic photos, and there isn't space on the page for all of them!

 

Below, is a selection of those that didn't get in the magazine.

 

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No. 53 pilots no. 147 on the down mail as it approaches Burmer across Kalakund Bridge.

 

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The flags are out for the reopening of Kitchener Station after rebuilding. Class O no. 53 works the special train on this festive occasion. Following the opening, those present partook of the usual refreshments of the sort expected on these ceremonies.

 

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Londonderry & Lough Swilly no. 12 on Newall Bridge.

 

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No. 53 on the Directors’ special inspection train at Jasmine.

 

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3182 0-6-2T no. 6R on the recently built rack locomotive 6R at Quarry Hill. No. 6R is a freelance adaption of an LGB rack chassis with the bodywork inspired by the locomotives built by S.L.M., Winterthur, for the Nilgiri Railway in Southern India.

 

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2-4-2T no. 70 (Beyer Peacock, Manchester, 1892) of the Ballemena and Larne section of the Belfast & Northern Counties Railway on Hermosa Bridge.

 

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ll railways can suffer from trespass. Here the driver of Trallee & Dingle no. 6T has to deal with George Cat on Elgin Viaduct.

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