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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...

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...

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...

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...

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/

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...

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...

The Purton Viaduct and the Purton Steam Carriage Road. .... On the road between Purton and Etloe on the Northwest side of the Severn Estuary there is a railway viaduct. Seemingly it sits remote from any former railway. Although you might just be forgiven for thinking that it is a remnant of the...

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...

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...

The July 1962 issue of ‘Modern Tramway’ included a short article about the Carstairs House Tramway, written by Christopher T. Harvie. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/08/the-first-permanent-electric-railway-in-scotland-the-carstairs-house-tramway/

Japan – The Opening of the Izu Express – Modern Tramway, June 1962 http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/08/08/japan-the-opening-of-the-izu-express-modern-tramway-june-1962/

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...

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...

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...

This next article is about The Humber Arm of the Newport Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal and the Lilleshall Company's tramways, and later mineral railway, which connected the Arm to Old Lodge Furnaces and to a number of coalmines and ironworking sites around Donnington in present day...