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This is another of the locomotive drawings carried in 1964 by the Model Railway News magazine. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/29/great-northern-railway-0-4-2-locomotive-no-551/

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/

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...

Hopefully!

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/

The next article relating to the Railways of Telford has a thread of its own . It focuses on the railways of Oakengates. It can be found on this forum on this link: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/the-railways-of-oakengates.264170/

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...

Keeping up with railway news from East Africa. .... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/02/10/february-2024-recent-relatively-recent-news-about-the-railways-of-kenya-and-uganda-metre-gauge-and-standard-gauge/ Sources are referred to in the text, primarily local newspapers. These include: 11th May...

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/ 1706199212 The length of the...

The Lilleshall Company Railways again. .... This next article covers the length of the Lilleshall Company railway network from their Grange Colliery to the Hollingswood Sidings which connected to the GWR main line between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton. ...

The TNL (Tramways de Nice et du Littoral) had four lines which ran some distance inland from the coast. Three ran out from Nice, serving: Levens, Bendejun, and La-Grave-de-Peille. All followed valleys of the Paillon and its tributaries. As well as the line to La-Grave-de-Peille, the line to...

I promised some time ago now that there would be a third article about this branch line. The first two articles can be found on this thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/the-garstang-to-knott-end-railway.199267/ This third article about the branch includes information about motive...

This next article about Nice's trams jumps forward to the 21st century and to the standard gauge trams which are operating successfully in the city. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/11/26/the-modern-tram-network-in-nice-2023/

Between Nice and Monte Carlo the TNL had two branch lines. The first ran from Pont St. Jean to St. Jean Cap Ferrat, the second ran up onto the rock in Monaco from the railway station. This article looks at those two lines...

La Ligne du Littoral et ses Antennes, First Generation Electric Tramways – Nice-Monte Carlo (Chemins de Fer de Provence/Alpes-Maritimes No. 91) … The line between Nice and Monte Carlo opened in a series of stages. First from Monaco to Place d’Armes in Monte Carlo on 14th May 1898; then from...

Buildwas to Much Wenlock. .... This article follows on from three other articles which covered the Wellington to Severn Junction Railway and which reached as far along the line as Buildwas...

An excellent question.

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...

The next article in a series following through the second volume of Jose Banaudo's two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, "Nice au fil du Tram."...

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