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GARDEN Rail G ARDEN Rail

Incorporating GARDEN RAILWAY WORLD

Publisher: Trevor M. Ridley

Editor: Tag Gorton e-mail: tag@atlanticpublishers.com 58 Beatrice Avenue, Saltash, Cornwall PL12 4NG Tel: 01752 845938

Review Columnists Geoff Calver, Alan Davis, Stuart Moon, Alan Habgood, David Pinniger

Garden Civil Engineering David Pratt

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ContentsContents

5 EDITOR’S LETTER Tag Gorton

10 BREDGAR AND WORMSHILL COACHES Tony Reynolds

16 BRITISH RAILWAYS 4MT TANK LOCOMOTIVE Peter Spoerer

18 Q & A FORUM No.1 John Lythgoe

21 CURRYING FAVOUR Mark Thatcher 16

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39 WORKING ON THE RAILWAY David Pratt PART 3

44 TRADING PLACES

48 MAIL BOX - MARKET PLACE DIARY DATES - ONLINE SHOPS

No.159 NOV 07 Front Cover: A D&RGW railcar eases carefully over the trestle on the approach to Redrock and a carefully restored vintage D&RGW vintage 0-4-0 is glimpsed in the distance. Careful blending of scale and full size landscape here combine to produce a garden railway with real atmosphere. Photo: Bert Horner

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24 THE BUTLEIGH VALE RAILWAY Reg Matthews

26 THE SNAKE RIVER RAILWAY Bert Horner

33 THE PERFECT ENDING Ray Wyborn

34 THE BACHMANN RAIL TRUCK Eric Londesbrough

38 LOCOLINES HUNSLIKE Paul Cage

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