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Issue 2 Autumn 2006
Miniature Railway 40 Manor Road, Dorchester DT1 2AX, England
tel 01305 259998 . fax 01305 259998 . ISSN 1751-3103 email atob@onetel.com . web www.miniature-railway.com Editors David & Jane Henshaw . Cover Design Tim Pestridge Contributors & Photographs (except where credited) Patrick Henshaw or David Henshaw Printers The Friary Press . Next deadline 4th January 2007

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oving house is never easy, but it’s a great deal more complex when you’re also moving a small publishing business. But we’ve arrived safely in Dorchester after seemingly never-ending disruption.The bad news is that our Maxitrak Opal project was boxed up in July and we’ve only just got the workshop up and running again.The good news is that we now have a 100 metres of garden to play with and track laying has already begun! More on the trials and tribulations of building a miniature railway on page 37. Elsewhere, we’ve - rather surprisingly - profiled a closed line, but the story is a fascinating one and the locomotives and rolling stock have mostly survived. Finally, thanks to everyone who has subscribed to Miniature Railway, in some cases before the first issue had even been printed.We’re delighted with the response and have been overwhelmed by the avalanche of subscribers. Clearly a Miniature Railway magazine WAS overdue.

Contents
Miniature Railway News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 Reviewed: Miniature Railway Books & DVDs Letters . . . .7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 . . . . . . . . . . . .1 3 .22

Profile: O a k h i l l M a n o r R a i l wa y

History: Miniature Pioneers - Greenly and Heywood

Feat ure: S o c i a l S e r v i c e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 0 Profile: M i c ro G a u ge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 4 Tec hnolog y: B u i l d i n g a S t e a m L o c o m o t i v e . . . . .3 7 Miniature Smalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 0

COVER PHOTO: P.Sharpe Ex-Oakhill Manor, GWR Saint ‘Hampton Court’ leads the LMS Jubilee at Stapleford Miniature Railway, June 2006

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