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Category: Reviews

Unboxing of Hornby’s King George VI and Duchess of Hamilton

4th March 2019 Andy Hill Features, Modelling, Reviews, Video

Here’s the latest unboxing of Hornby’s LMS Princess Class Locomotives, the Duchess of Hamilton and King George VI.

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THE KING’S CROSS STORY 200 YEARS OF HISTORY IN THE RAILWAY LANDS

18th February 2019 Sam Hewitt Freight, Network, Reviews, Steam

By Peter Darley THIS is a superb book. Peter Darley tells the story of the Great Northern’s King’s Cross station and the extensive nearby ‘Railway Lands’ during the last 200 years.  The term Railway Lands

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FLYING SCOTSMAN Print

12th December 2018 Sam Hewitt Reviews, Steam

There are many superb images of Flying Scotsman, be they watercolours, photographs or models, but this one is special. Painted in 1975 by renowned artist David Weston, it was presented as a gift to Bruce

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Grouping Britain’s Railways: Creating the ‘Big Four’ in 1923

12th December 2018 Sam Hewitt Reviews, Steam

By A J Mullay DESPITE being one of the most significant events in the history of Britain’s railways, surprisingly little has been written about the circumstances that led to the Grouping of 1923, creating the

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Flying Scotsman limited-edition print

6th December 2018 Andy Hill Advertisement Feature, News, Reviews

The stunning limited edition print of Flying Scotsman, as advertised on page 75 of the December 2018 issue of The Railway Magazine, has now dropped to a new pre-Christmas price. Advertised in the magazine at

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Industrial Locomotives & Railways of the North West of England

10th October 2018 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By Gordon Edgar WITH this book Gordon Edgar continues his growing series of pictorial studies that record myriad industrial railway systems of all gauges that were once so common in Great Britain. This latest volume

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Atlas of Railway Station Closures

12th September 2018 Sam Hewitt Reviews

PASSENGERS No More has been used as the definitive reference guide to closed lines and stations for many years, but for the first time, comprehensive maps, along with the list of closed passenger stations and

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The Lancashire Derbyshire and East Coast Railway – A Pictorial View of the ‘Dukeries Route’ and Branches: Volume 2 – Langwith Junction to Lincoln and the Proposed Route to Sutton-on-Sea

9th May 2018 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By Chris Booth THIS excellent publication is Volume 2 of a projected comprehensive three-volume work on the LD & ECR. Volume 1 was published in 2017 and the third volume will focus mainly on The

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The Turbomotive: Stanier’s Advanced Pacific

18th April 2018 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By Tim Hillier-Graves THE latest in Pen & Sword’s Locomotive Portfolios series takes an in-depth look at one of the more successful experimental steam locomotives seen on British metals – the LMS ‘Turbomotive’. Unlike the

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Locomotive Traction 2018

15th February 2018 Sam Hewitt Reviews

by Pip Dunn OVER the years there have been many reference books listing locomotive and rolling stock fleets, starting most famously with Ian Allan’s ‘ABC’ guides. Crecy Publishing, which now owns the former Ian Allan

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