RMweb Premium steverabone Posted May 7, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 7, 2020 (edited) I’m posting this announcement about the next issue of TRACTION a bit earlier than usual as I know that some of you may have difficulty obtaining a copy in your usual shop . HOW TO STAY HOME AND STILL GET TRACTION MAGAZINE In the current situation some explanation of our various options to order TRACTION online for free delivery to your door. You can still buy a printed issue of TRACTION and have it delivered to your door for FREE. www.world-of-railways.co.uk/Store/Latest-Issue/traction Subscribe to the printed edition and have it delivered to your door for FREE. www.world-of-railways.co.uk/Store/Subscriptions/traction We also offer two digital options. You can sign up to a digital subscription, downloading each issue to keep and read on any device, from Pocketmags – www.warners.gr/tradigital Or you can sign up for our digital archive. This is a membership service, you read the issues online and you only have access for as long as you subscribe, but this gives you access to every edition from the current one back to issue 183, 75 issues. www.warners.gr/TRAdigitalarchive We start TRACTION 258 with an article about the short period in the early 1970s when pairs of Class 50s powered the principal West Coast Main Line expresses north of Crewe to Glasgow. This allowed a significant acceleration of services before the new electric services started. David Clough and Jon Littlewood discuss the problems that BR faced on this demanding route. Eastleigh was, and still is, a superb location to watch both passenger and freight trains. Back in the 1970s and 1980s there was of course more variety than today. A selection of John Dedman’s photographs take us back in time to the days before the ‘Voyagers’ and Class 66s. Regular readers of TRACTION will have been following the series of articles by Mick Humphrys about his days on the footplate along the southern end of the West Coast Main Line. In this issue we begin a two-part article about the years when he drove electric multiple units along the North London Line. Little has been written about this subject so we are particularly pleased that Mick has written about his time driving these less glamorous trains. David Hayes concludes his series of articles about closed freight lines in the West Midlands. This time he recalls the end of operations on the Wednesbury and Dudley line in the 1990s. Ken Horan worked on the footplate in the Shef eld area in the 1960s and took photos of the EM1 electric locos at Shef eld Victoria in the closing months of the passenger services over the Woodhead line. Moving north to Edinburgh Gavin Morrison paid many visits to the depot at Haymarket when it was still responsible for maintaining a wide variety of locomotives including the ‘Deltics’ and Class 47/7s and he has chosen just a few images to give us a taste of what it was like in the 1970s and 1980s. Most British enthusiasts will have memories of that most exciting of railway centres, Crewe. Growing up in this Cheshire town Michael Hitchen followed developments and gives us a taste of what it was like to live there in the BR Blue years. In TRACTION MODELLING we feature a superb 4mm scale layout by the Kendal Model Railway Club. ‘Scorbiton’ is inspired by the railways in Shropshire and is inspiring for both the high standard of the scenic treatment as well as its realistic portrayal of railway operations in the mid- 1980s. Edited May 11, 2020 by steverabone 7 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ruggedpeak Posted May 24, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 24, 2020 Hi Steve Have subscriber copies gone out yet? Thanks Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium steverabone Posted May 24, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted May 24, 2020 I can't answer this question precisely (especially for a question at the weekend!!). The copies for contributors have been sent out so I expect subscription copies will have gone at the same time. Obviously there are some delays in the postal system, as my own mail is a bit erratic in arriving so you may need to be patient. The digital issue is now on line. Stephen Rabone 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ruggedpeak Posted May 26, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 26, 2020 Stephen Many thanks, it arrived this morning , just curious. Not expecting a response at the weekend, especially a Bank holiday. Had a flick through, great photos as usual. Kind regards Tony Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Legroom Posted June 4, 2020 Share Posted June 4, 2020 Hi Stephen I really enjoyed this issue, especially the Haymarket Depot feature. I’ve been having a bit of a cull of my magazines recently but I’m happy to say that no copies of Traction (going back to issue 1 with a few gaps) have ended up in the recycling box! Best wishes Max Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium steverabone Posted June 4, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2020 Good to hear that you enjoyed this issue and that Traction has escaped the recycling! Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2020 I notice Traction is now (from Jan 2020 edition by the looks of it) available on the Readily app, which is nice. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium steverabone Posted June 4, 2020 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2020 Yes Traction can now be read on Readily. https://gb.readly.com/products/magazine/traction?q=traction The cost is £0.99 for the first month and then £7.99 a month for which you can read any magazine on the website. There are lots of British railway and model railway magazines and some overseas ones such as Eisenbahn. Stephen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium spamcan61 Posted June 4, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 4, 2020 I only noticed it a few days back, there's also some old BRM annuals on there now which I don't recall seeing before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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