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1971 – August – a pot pourri
A mixture of items from the August 1971 Railway Magazine, starting with a little deja vu. You could write a similar headline in 2016…. Across America with AMTRAK Uncertain future of United States passenger trains rests with new national corporation. … Continue reading
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Why Rome sends trains filled with rubbish to Austria
This could be another odd modelling article, but it caught my eye as I was catching up with the world news. Rome’s rubbish is helping to power Austrian homes – and it gets to Austria by train. Rome has been … Continue reading
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Odd modelling idea(s) #2017
In case you missed it on N Gauge Forum, I can recommend this video. Not for the faint hearted and for some of these high altitude trips it would be wise to carry a change of underwear….. I am sorry … Continue reading
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Indonesian Interlude
A couple of days after the ESNG show, I was catching a plane to Java, to do a 4 week input to a World Bank aid project on irrigation. Once again, retirement is postponed, but I fancied another project in … Continue reading
1971 – July – A polite correspondence
The letters page of the July 1971 Railway Magazine produced some interesting snippets, but most fascinating was the style. Letter writing was still an art – no email, Fa(r)cebook or Twitter. This month’s letters had an exchange of views on whether the exhaust … Continue reading
A little Redhill local history
I’ll report back on the show next time. But for now, a little local history (at least it is if you live in Redhill). From the Surrey Mirror: The grisly tale of the tunnel between Merstham and Coulsdon South Anyone … Continue reading
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Odd modelling ideas #398
From the Daily Telegraph… Incredible train ‘disappears’ through block of flats in China’s ‘Mountain City’ Architects and planners in a Chinese city have designed a novel way to make space for an essential train route – by building it through … Continue reading
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1971 – April – “Gricers” reach Wales
The April 1971 edition of Railway Magazine contained an article informing us that there were still seven classes of steam locomotive operating in Malaysia. They had certainly all gone by 1985 when Maxine and I took a train from Kuala … Continue reading
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Tagged humour, narrow gauge, prototype, railway
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Blatant tourism interlude
Back from Singapore last weekend, having worked for 10 days solid. But there was time to take a few photos. So here’s a little tourism as a diversion from the usual trains. I did find time to visit the Asian … Continue reading
A question of gauge
In March 1995, ‘Back Track’ had an interesting article on the gauge of railways, with particular reference to the GWR broad gauge and the 4′ 8.5″ ‘narrow’ gauge. Railway history is often thought of as a battle between these gauges, … Continue reading
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