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Issue 4 Spring 2007
Miniature Railway 40 Manor Road, Dorchester, DT1 2AX, England
tel 01305 259998 . ISSN 1751-3103 email atob@atob.org.uk . web www.miniature-railway.com Editors David & Jane Henshaw . Cover Design Tim Pestridge Contributors David Henshaw, Patrick Henshaw, Colin Thompson . Printers The Friary Press

Next deadline 23rd July 2007

n our brief guide to miniature gauges in issue 1 we omitted 121/4" lines, on the basis that they seemed too rare to bother about. How wrong we were! For a number of reasons, 121/4" is on the up and up: Big enough to run decent sized locomotives, but small enough to escape the more draconian railway safety legislation. Quite by chance issue 4 has evolved into 121/4" special - we report from the 121/4" Exbury Steam Railway, arguably one of the best new lines in the country, and Hotham Park in Bognor Regis, where a 101/4" line is being relaid to 121/4"! Elsewhere, new lines, old locomotives and a pair of unique narrow gauge railways.

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Contents
Miniature Railway News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Book Review: Passenger-carrying Miniature Railways .8 Book Review: Change Here for a Walk in the Woods .9 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10

Profile: T h e E x b u r y S t e a m R a i l wa y . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 Narrow Gauge: H y t h e P i e r & D o d d i n g ’s Fa r m . .2 4 Club Profiles: P u r b e c k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 9 Histor y: M e m o r i e s o f M o d e l & M i n i a t u re . . . . . 3 4 Technolog y: B u i l d Yo u r O w n R a i l wa y ! . . . . . . . . 3 6 Miniature Smalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43

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