N o 184 DECEMBER 2009

GAR DEN RailGAR DEN Rail

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ContentsContents

5 EDITOR’S LETTER

Tag Gorton

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10 ACCUCRAFT UK W&L

BOGIE COACHES Stuart Moon

13 EDWARD THOMAS

Matthew Acton

15 DINGLEY GOODS SHED

David Turner

19 NIGHT TIME ON THE OYSTER

CREEK RAILROAD Rich Perrelli

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44 TRADING PLACES

48 DIARY DATES - TRADE NEWS

MARKET PLACE

N o 184 DECEMBER 2009 Front Cover: Busy times at Beckfoot as a Roundhouse ‘Fowler’ class rolls in with the local passenger train under the newly installed footbridge while N o 4 leaves with the freight. Photo: Tarran Macmillan

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22 VIKING INVASION

Neil Hay

26 THE GOLDEN TEE REVISITED

Tarran Macmillan

34 MARAZAN –

A BEDDGELERT VARIATION Leo Smith

37 BARRETT ENGINEERING J38 KIT

Stuart Weston PART 3

39 UNDOING CHOPPER COUPLINGS

Michael Watts

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