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    The Furness Railway Locomotive No. 58

    Looking through a number of 1964 Model Railway News magazines, I came across drawings of Sharp, Stewart & Co. 2-4-0, built in 1870 for the Furness Railway Co. and numbered 58 on their roster. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/29/furness-railway-locomotive-no-58/ Originally conceived as a...
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    NBL 4-8-2 Locomotives for New Zealand (1939)

    Towards the end of March 2024, I stumbled across a number of journals of the New Zealand Model Railway Guild. One of these, the March 2021 edition, included a pictorial article about J1211 North British 4-8-2 Locomotive No. 24534 of 1939...
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    Mallet Locomotives in East Africa. ...

    Before World War 1, Mallet locomotives were seen as being the best motive power on the metre-gauge/950mm-gauge lines in East Africa. ...... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/24/mallet-locomotives-in-east-africa/
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    The Railways of Oakengates, Shropshire

    East Shropshire is well known as the ‘cradle of the Industrial Revolution’ with iron works, coal mines and furnaces all well established by 1760. Oakengates is a small town situated in the former Shropshire industrial area, and is roughly midway between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton, which has...
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    Railway News from Uganda and Kenya... February 2024

    Railway news from East Africa in 2023 and early 2024. .... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/02/10/february-2024-recent-relatively-recent-news-about-the-railways-of-kenya-and-uganda-metre-gauge-and-standard-gauge/
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    The Wenlock Branch, Shropshire, UK.

    This is a first article about the Wenlock Branch and covers the length from Buildwas to Much Wenlock. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/10/19/the-railways-of-east-shropshire-and-telford-the-much-wenlock-and-severn-junction-railway-buildwas-to-much-wenlock/ The length of the Wenlock Branch...
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    Greater Manchester - 'Modern Tramway' 1983

    A Rail Strategy for Greater Manchester (1983). … Reading the ‘Modern Tramway’ Journal of May 1983 in Autumn 2023, took me back to the time when I was working for Greater Manchester Council. The County Engineer was A.E. Naylor. I was working in the Engineer’s office in County Hall. The ‘Modern...
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    Early Railways in Plymouth

    Early in the history of Railways, Plymouth used technologies which elsewhere were in use in the mining industries of the British Isles. Wooden and then iron tramroads were used in Plymouth in a more maritime context. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/21/early-railways-in-plymouth/
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    The First Railways - Derek Hayes

    The First Railways: Atlas of Early Railways Derek Hayes: The Times, HarperCollins, 2017 I picked up a copy of this book in September 2023. It is large format Hardback book of 272 pages. The listed price is £30.00 but my copy cost me just over £10 plus postage and it is in an excellent...
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    Derry, Ireland, Port and Harbour Commissioners' Railways

    The 'Modern Tramway' Journal of September 1963 had a short article about the Harbour Tramways in Derry, written by J.H. Price. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/10/derry-history-the-harbour-tramways-railways/ Friday 31st August, 1962, saw the closing of the dockside dual-gauge tramways of...
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    The Kingsway Tramway Subway in London. ...

    The Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review of November 1963 carried an article by C.S. Dunbar about the Kingsway Tramway Subway. It seemed an opportune moment to focus on the Subway as the southernmost portion of the tunnel was just about to open to motor traffic as the Strand Underpass. An...
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    Tramways in and around Nice

    A return to Nice is in the offing and I have turned back to books by Jose Banaudo. Jose Banaudo published a two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, “Nice au fil du Tram.” This is the first of a series of articles based on the second volume. (Jose Banaudo; Nice au fil du Tram...
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    The Carstairs House Tramway

    The July 1962 issue of ‘Modern Tramway’ included a short article about the Carstairs House Tramway, written by Christopher T. Harvie. It appears that it was the first permanent installation of its type in Scotland. ...
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    The Izu Express, Japan

    In June 1962, the ‘Modern Tramway’ carried a report by J. W. Higgins and Ralph Forty entitled ‘A New Electric Interurban in Japan’. The Izu Express was at that time Japan’s newest railway. It had opened on 10th December 1961. In the 21st century, the line is known as ‘The Izu Kyūkō Line’. It...
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    New Articulated Trams for Zurich and Basel in the early 1960s

    Modern Tramway and Light Railway Review, June 1962 carried an article based on notes by H.J. Bertschmann, G.A. Meier and M. Frei about then new articulated trams in these two Swiss cities. Both the Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe and the Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Zürich had taken delivery, in the...
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    The Strange Tale of No. 2

    As part of a batch of magazines from the 1950s and 1960s I picked up a number of editions of ‘Modern Tramway’ from 1963 into 1964. ‘The Modern Tramway’ was the journal of the Light Railway Transport League (LRTL). By 1963 it had dropped the ‘The’ and was published jointly by Ian Allen and the...
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    The Manx Electric Railway

    In 1957 the Manx Electric Railway was nationalised by the Manx Government. The Modern Tramway Journal reported on this in the late 1950s. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/06/19/the-modern-tramway-part-7-the-manx-electric-railway/ It followed this report with a review of progress in its June and...
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    Blackpool's Trams: The Marton Experiment

    Blackpool's Trams: The Marton Experiment... The 'Modern Tramway' reported in January & February 1963 on a relatively short-lived experiment on Blackpool's trams. The Marton route was an inland route through Blackpool which complemented the promenade route. The two articles were written by F.K...
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    The Tralee and Dingle Railway

    I have recently finished reading an excellent book published by the Lightmoor Press: "The Tralee and Dingle Railway," written by Michael Whitehouse. This is my review of the book: http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/07/09/the-tralee-dingle-railway/
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    The Modern Tramway Journal in the mid-20th century. ...

    ‘The Modern Tramway‘ was the title of the journal of the Light Railway Transport League. I picked up a small batch of copies of The Modern Tramway Journal which included volumes from the 1950s, 1960s and 1980s and have begun reading through them. The first Journal that I have is dated 15th July...


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