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This is another of the locomotive drawings carried in 1964 by the Model Railway News magazine. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/29/great-northern-railway-0-4-2-locomotive-no-551/ The Great Northern Railway recognised the value of 'mixed traffic' locomotives in the 19th century. Lindsay says that seventy five locos of this class were built. One source says that a total of 117 Class 18 locos were built. The Great Northern Railway Society says that 153 were built. The different sources seem to agree that fifty of the class were out-sourced from locomotive builders, the remainder were built in-house at the Great Northern's Doncaster works.

Looking through a number of 1964 Model Railway News magazines, I came across drawings of Sharp, Stewart & Co. 2-4-0, built in 1870 for the Furness Railway Co. and numbered 58 on their roster. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/29/furness-railway-locomotive-no-58/ Originally conceived as a mineral railway, the Furness Railway later played a major role in the development of the town of Barrow-in-Furness, and in the development of the Lake District Tourist industry. It was formed in 1846 and survived as an independent, viable concern until the Grouping of 1923.

Towards the end of March 2024, I stumbled across a number of journals of the New Zealand Model Railway Guild. One of these, the March 2021 edition, included a pictorial article about J1211 North British 4-8-2 Locomotive No. 24534 of 1939. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/26/the-north-british-locomotive-company-j-class-locomotives-on-new-zealands-3ft-6in-gauge-network/ 40 No. 4-8-2 locomotives which were built in 1939 by the North British Locomotive Company and became the New Zealand Railways (NZR) J class.

Mallets in East Africa Before World War 1, Mallet locomotives were seen as being the best motive power on the metre-gauge/950mm-gauge lines in East Africa. ...... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/24/mallet-locomotives-in-east-africa/

The next article relating to the Railways of Telford has a thread of its own . It focuses on the railways of Oakengates. It can be found on this forum on this link: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/forums/topic/184980-the-railways-of-oakengates/#comment-5456862

East Shropshire is well known as the ‘cradle of the Industrial Revolution’ with iron works, coal mines and furnaces all well established by 1760. Oakengates is a small town situated in the former Shropshire industrial area, and is roughly midway between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, which has now been subsumed into the new town of Telford. Prior to absorption into Telford, the town had a population of around 11,500, which made it the third largest settlement in the county after Shrewsbury and Wellington. The town found itself at the centre of a network of railways which included a LNWR main line, a GWR mainline, a LNWR branch line, two GWR branch lines and the private railway network of the Lilleshall Company. The linked article focuses on the lines running through the heart of Oakengates. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/01/31/the-railways-of-oakengates/

Whoops! I will try to sort that out. 🙂

Interesting. Each time I have tried sending the link it has been a "https://" link but it appears that the software is converting it to a "http://" link. So I am not sure what is happening. Trying again: https://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/10/19/the-railways-of-east-shropshire-and-telford-the-much-wenlock-and-severn-junction-railway-buildwas-to-much-wenlock/ and https://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/01/13/the-wenlock-branch-from-much-wenlock-to-presthope/

Railway news from East Africa in 2023 and early 2024. .... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/02/10/february-2024-recent-relatively-recent-news-about-the-railways-of-kenya-and-uganda-metre-gauge-and-standard-gauge/

Sorry about that, Adrian. I am not sure why this is happening. ... These links, will work, I hope. ...

This is a first article about the Wenlock Branch and covers the length from Buildwas to Much Wenlock. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/10/19/the-railways-of-east-shropshire-and-telford-the-much-wenlock-and-severn-junction-railway-buildwas-to-much-wenlock/ The length of the Wenlock Branch from Much Wenlock to Presthope is covered in the next linked article. .... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/01/13/the-wenlock-branch-from-much-wenlock-to-presthope/

The Lilleshall Company's Railways again. ... This next article covers the length of the Lilleshall Company railway network from their Grange Colliery to the Hollingswood Sidings which connected to the GWR main line between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton. ... https://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/01/12/the-lilleshall-companys-railways-part-3-grange-colliery-to-hollinswood-sidings/

The TNL (Tramways de Nice et du Littoral) had four lines which ran some distance inland from the coast. Three ran out from Nice, serving: Levens, Bendejun, and La-Grave-de-Peille. All followed valleys of the Paillon and its tributaries. As well as the line to La-Grave-de-Peille, the line to Contes and Bendejun was to have had another Branch to l'Escarene. Major work was undertaken on that line but it was never brought into use. A fourth line ran inland from Menton to Sospel. Two lines are covered in the linked article - that to Levens and that to Sospel. ..... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/12/14/the-tramways-of-nice-les-lignes-de-larriere-pays-the-lines-of-the-hinterland-part-1-first-generation-electric-tramways-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-alpes-maritimes-no-94/ Another article will cover the remaining lines.

This is a third article about the branch and it includes information about motive power and the rolling stock used on the line. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/12/13/the-garstang-to-knott-end-railway-again/

The next article on this thread jumps forward to the 21st century and the modern trams that are now running so successfully in the city. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/11/26/the-modern-tram-network-in-nice-2023/