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The End of the ‘Deltics’ _Page 16

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Current mainline and heritage traction developments

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the two hundred D200s Colin Boocock looks back at the life of the iconic English Electric Type 4s

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the end of the ‘Deltics’ Simon Carter gives a personal recount of the end of the East

Coast race horses

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Les Ross meets Les Ross

Andy Coward explains how a Class 86 came to be named after a West Midlands DJ

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Cumbrian Coast traction Steve Allen visits this scenic line to view freight activity

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Class 47 Update Charles Mackintosh reviews Class 47 operations in the first six months of 2011

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tinsley depot Gavin Bland visits this once important maintenance depot

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Gallery

John Hooson chooses some of his favourite railway photographs

Dave’s Diary

Craig Munday discovers a train guard’s journal for the Cornish

Main Line in the 1980s

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Cover Resplendent in its blue livery visiting loco 50044 Exeter departs Bury (Bolton St.) station working the 14:30 departure for Heywood on 3rd July 2011 during the East Lancashire Railway’s Summer Diesel Gala weekend. Geoff Butler

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Reviews The latest books and DVDs tRACtIon MoDeLLInG

off the Rails Paul Lunn suggests how the modeller can simulate a freight train derailment live!

the Dinting accident Richard Kaye’s photographs show a freight train derailment as it happened track Circuit Runner Paul Lunn explains what the purposes of these wagons was

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Converting the Bachmann Farish Class 20 to DCC Roger Miller shows how to carry out this conversion

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