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Contents news

Current mainline and heritage traction developments

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the ‘Westerns’: should they have stayed?

Colin Boocock asks whether keeping the class in service could have saved BR buying

70 new locomotives

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Western experience Garry Morris tells us about his first week working as a second man on ‘Westerns’

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Carlisle – ‘the night shift’

Part 1

Stephen Rabone finds himself fascinated by night operations at

Carlisle in the 1970s

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Cover Operated by Transrail for ScotRail, green liveried 37403 Ben Cruachan passes Aonach Mor near Fort William with a train from Glasgow on the 7th April 1994. Douglas Young

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tPo Your letters and photos to the editor

37s, 47s and semaphores at Inverness Martin Axford spends time at

Inverness in 1986

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Going Loco to Llandudno

Gary Stroud looks back at locomotive haulage on the

Llandudno branch

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Diesel Driver experience Day

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David King tells us about the day he won the chance to drive a class 37

1962 Review of the Year –

Part 1

J Crosse looks back 50 years at progress on the BR

Modernisation Plan

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the PWM shunting locomotives

Andrew Turner decided to hunt down these departmental shunting locomotives before they were scrapped

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Reviews The latest books and DVDs tRACtIon MoDeLLInG

Rhyfeddodau Cymru – Welsh Wonders Paul Lunn puts forward a suggestion for a combined homebased and exhibition layout

Model Box Paul Lunn looks at the detailing possibilities that signal boxes present

Heljan Class 55 in o scale Jeff Nicholls reviews this magnificent model

Contributions to tRACtIon We are always interested in receiving contributions for TRACTION to allow us to make the magazine even more interesting. If you can write about your experiences as a member of the railway’s staff, or as an enthusiast, we’d really like to hear from you. We need interesting articles on any subject related to the diesel and electric traction, as well as features for those interested in model railways. Text can be in typed or digital formats. We can accept photographs in colour or black and white, and in any format; prints, negatives, slides or digital.

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