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6 Metre Gauge on High Even though spectacular and operating well above the 10,000ft contour, the railways of Bolivia have received little attention – until now!

10 A Baldwin Steams Again Cliff Thomas explains why August 1 was a red letter day.

12 Delightful Decrepitude Sardinia offers something that is becoming less common – a railway system gradually falling into decay.

16 Double Celebration in Austria

17 The Locomotive Builders Andrew Neale charts the history of Motor Rail, whose products became famous world wide under the trade name ‘Simplex’.

24 Yugoslavia – 1965 Charlie Lewis concludes this fascinating series with an illicit glimpse of an extraordinary locomotive noted for its ‘ridiculous agitation of mobile members’.

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26 Hollycombe’s ‘Quarry Railway’ After a brief interlude, we resume our look at today’s British narrow gauge with a line that has tended to stay below the radar but is now clearly going places.

29 Steam and Timber

COVER: 0-6-4T Yv2 shunting at Opponitz on the Ybbstalbahn, Austria, on August 16, 2006. DAVID RODGERS

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