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Issue 3 Winter 2007 Miniature Railway 40 Manor Road,Dorchester,DT1 2AX,England tel 01305 259998 .ISSN 1751-3103 email atob@onetel.com .web www.miniature-railway.com Editors David & Jane Henshaw . Cover Design Tim Pestridge Contributors David Henshaw,Patrick Henshaw,Richard Shaw,Neville Quick .Printers The Friary Press Next deadline 23rd March 2007

Two names pop up several times in this issue. David Curwen is one of the great miniature locomotive builders,and you’ll find a review of his autobiography on page 5,numerous references to his locos,and strangely,we think we have one of his signals in our back garden...John Southern is the miniature enthusiast from Cornwall who converted his farm into one of the finest miniature railways ever built,and went on to commission the biggest and most powerful 7 1 / 4 " steam engine in the world to run on it.Nearly forty years later,the railway is being scaled back,but the Dobwalls story is by no means over.We dedicate this issue to David,John,and engineers and visionaries everywhere!

Contents

Miniature Railway News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Book Review: Rule of Thumb . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

DVD Review: Farewell to Sherman Hill . . . . . . . . 6

Tested: DrainBrain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

History: Articulated Locomotives . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Profile: The Forest Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

History: Diary of a Small Locomotive . . . . . . . . 24

Feature: Planning Permission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Profile: Neville’s Garden Railway . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Technology: Building a Railway . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Miniature Smalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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