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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.
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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.
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.
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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/
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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
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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/
Significant elements of this article depend on an article by David Bradshaw & Stanley C. Jenkins; Rails around Oakengates; in Steam Days, March 2013. Their work is used here with the kind permission of David Bradshaw who is a native of Oakengates. In addition, I have gathered together everything that I have found which relates directly to the railways which passed through Oakengates. In March 2024, I gave a talk to the Oakengates History Group which was culled from what is included in this article.
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Whoops!
I will try to sort that out. 🙂
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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:
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https://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/01/13/the-wenlock-branch-from-much-wenlock-to-presthope/
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Railway news from East Africa in 2023 and early 2024. ....
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Sorry about that, Adrian. I am not sure why this is happening. ...
These links, will work, I hope. ...
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This is a first article about the Wenlock Branch and covers the length from 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/
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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. ...
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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. .....
Another article will cover the remaining lines.
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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/
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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/
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Monte Carlo to Menton
Our visit to Nice in November 2023 provided the impetus for looking at the Tramways de Nice et du Littoral (TNL) network of metre-gauge tramways.
This next article is about the most easterly part of the network, the line between Monte Carlo and Menton. ...
As trams travelled along this route they passed two significant local railways/tramways. ...
1. The rack railway from Monte Carlo to La Turbie on the Grande Corniche which throughout its existence was a significant tourist line. ...
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2017/11/23/monaco-to-la-turbie-rack-railway-chemins-de-fer-de-provence-15/
2. The Menton to Sospel branch tramway which was very different in character to the rest of the TNL network. Given that much of the line was on its own formation, it was more akin to a mountain railway than the remainder of the network. It was similar in many ways to the Tramways des Alpes Maritimes (TAM) lines which served the hinterland behind the Cote d'Azur. ...
This line will feature in a future article which looks at two of the TNL lines in the hills behind the Mediterranean coast. ...
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Between Nice and Monte Carlo the TNL had two branch lines. The first ran from Pont St. Jean to St. Jean Cap Ferrat, the second ran up onto the rock in Monaco from the railway station. This article looks at those two lines:
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La Ligne du Littoral et ses Antennes, First Generation Electric Tramways – Nice-Monte Carlo (Chemins de Fer de Provence/Alpes-Maritimes No. 91) …
The line between Nice and Monte Carlo opened in a series of stages. First from Monaco to Place d’Armes in Monte Carlo on 14th May 1898; then from Place Massena in Nice to Villefranche, on 1st February 1900; Villefranche to Beaulieu on 3rd November 1900; TNL trams were permitted to run on Monaco’s tramways from 28th May 1903; and the remaining length, Beaulieu to Monaco Place d’Armes opened on 7th November 1903. Over the next few years some single track lengths were doubled.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/10/28/nice-monte-carlo
Future articles will focus on two branch-lines which left the Nice to Monte Carlo line and on the extension beyond Monte Carlo to Menton.
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Jose Banaudo writes, ”As an extension of the Cannes Tramway route which linked Mandelieu, Cannes and Antibes, the TNL coastal line extended from Cap-d’Antibes to the Menton district of Garavan via Cagnes, Nice, Villefranche, Beaulieu , Monaco, Cap-Martin and Menton. These juxtaposed sections formed a continuous axis of 76 km of interurban tramway which served almost the entire coastline of the Alpes-Maritimes, from the Emite of the Var department to the Italian border.”
The linked article is the first looking at this coastal (littoral) route and looks at the length between Nice and Cap d'Antibes.
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A Rail Strategy for Greater Manchester (1983). …
Reading the ‘Modern Tramway’ Journal of May 1983 in Autumn 2023, took me back to the time when I was working for Greater Manchester Council. The County Engineer was A.E. Naylor. I was working in the Engineer’s office in County Hall.
The ‘Modern Tramway’ carried an article by W.J. Wyse about the then recently released rail strategy for the conurbation.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/10/10/a-rail-strategy-for-greater-manchester-1983/
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The next article in a series following through the second volume of Jose Banaudo's two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, "Nice au fil du Tram."
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Early in the history of Railways, Plymouth used technologies which elsewhere were in use in the mining industries of the British Isles. Wooden and then iron tramroads were used in Plymouth in a more maritime context. ...
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/21/early-railways-in-plymouth/
QuoteThe first railways in the area were of wooden rails used during the construction of docks facilities. Some were in use in the Naval Dockyard in 1724, and in 1756 John Smeaton laid some more to help move materials in his workyard on the mainland which was preparing stonework for the Eddystone Lighthouse.
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The First Railways: Atlas of Early Railways
Derek Hayes: The Times, HarperCollins, 2017
I picked up a copy of this book in September 2023. It is large format Hardback book of 272 pages. The listed price is £30.00 but my copy cost me just over £10 plus postage and it is in an excellent pre-owned condition. I had anticipated a well-illustrated book which would be a relatively easy read. I was pleasantly surprised to find that while it was an excellent read, it was also a well-researched, scholarly work with: all maps and illustrations properly catalogued and sources noted; a significant bibliography of scholarly works; and a comprehensive index.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/14/the-first-railways-atlas-of-early-railways/-
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The 'Modern Tramway' Journal of September 1963 had a short article about the Harbour Tramways in Derry, written by J.H. Price. ...
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/10/derry-history-the-harbour-tramways-railways/
Friday 31st August, 1962, saw the closing of the dockside dual-gauge tramways of the Port and Harbour Commissioners in Derry.
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The Purton Viaduct and the Purton Steam Carriage Road. ....
On the road between Purton and Etloe on the Northwest side of the Severn Estuary there is a railway viaduct. Seemingly it sits remote from any former railway. Although you might just be forgiven for thinking that it is a remnant of the Forest of Dean Central Railway which ran through Blakeney, or even associated with the Severn & Wye Railway which ran close to, but to the South of, the hamlet of Purton.
http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/10/the-purton-viaduct-and-the-purton-steam-carriage-road/
Great Northern Railway 0-4-2 Locomotive No. 551
in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
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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.