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Category: Reviews

1st Take… your first choice

19th December 2017 Web Editor Advertisement Feature, News, Reviews

If you’re looking for a fascinating DVD, book or expertise on how to transfer cine film to disc, the team at 1st Take is the one to call. The company has hundreds of great products,

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Christmas Gift Guide

9th November 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

BOOKS Southern Steam Days Remembered II By Kevin Derrick IT SEEMS hard to believe it is now half a century since steam operations ceased on British Railway’s Southern Region. This lavishly produced limited edition photographic

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THE EAST COAST MAIN LINE 1939-1959

14th October 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By B W L Brooksbank and Peter Tuffrey THIS is a condensed softback version of a book produced by Ben Brooksbank 20 years ago, and has the added attraction of several new photographs. As an

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BRITAIN’S GROWING RAILWAY

27th September 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

IN PASSENGER terms, Britain has the fastest-growing railway in Europe, and although the damage caused to the physical network by the Beeching cuts of the 1960s can never be rectified, huge strides have been made

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Monorails of the Early 20th Century

10th May 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By Adrian S Garner THIS second volume in Adrian S Garner’s exhaustive study of monorails continues the story from 1900 to the mid-20th century, and reveals some remarkable railways in the UK and further afield,

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British Rail Scene: The 1970s and early-1980s in Photographs

10th May 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By Andy Sparks ANDY Sparks is no ordinary railway photographer, and this is not your average railway book filled with front three-quarter views of trains going around curves. Blessed with a good eye for composition

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REVIEWS: Rails through the Forest

8th March 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By the Dean Forest Railway Museum Trust THE publication of a first volume by the Dean Forest Railway Museum Trust (now out of print) about railways in the Forest of Dean, triggered an avalanche of

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Rails through the north Kerry

10th February 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

Jonathan Beaumont and Barry Carse THE picturesque single-track through route that meandered south-west from Limerick to Tralee from 1880 until 1975 is still considered a loss to the Republic of Ireland’s railway network more than

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GRESLEY’S A3s

31st January 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By Peter Tuffrey IT WASN’T that many years ago that detailed books on ‘A3s’ were something of a rarity compared with those covering other famous classes. Indeed, it wasn’t until as relatively recently as 2002/3

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Armoured Trains

31st January 2017 Sam Hewitt Reviews

By Paul Malmassari THIS is a true magnum opus, containing 528 pages, weighing 5½lb and priced at £50, but it will be invaluable to anyone even vaguely interested in the subject of railways and war.

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