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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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    The Railways of Telford

    The Lilleshall Company's 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. ...
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    Tramways in and around Nice

    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...
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    The Garstang to Knott End Railway in the UK

    After a lengthy delay, this is a third article about the branch and it includes information about motive power and the rolling stock used on the line. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/12/13/the-garstang-to-knott-end-railway-again/
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    Tramways in and around Nice

    This next article about Nice's trams jumps forward to the 21st century and the modern trams that are now running so successfully in the city. ... http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/11/26/the-modern-tram-network-in-nice-2023/
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    Tramways in and around Nice

    Monte Carlo to Menton Our visit to Nice in November 2023 provided the impetus for looking at the Tramways de Nice et du Littoral (TNL) network of metre-gauge tramways. This next article is about the most easterly part of the network, the line between Monte Carlo and Menton. ...
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    Tramways in and around Nice

    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...
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    Tramways in and around Nice

    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...
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    The Railways of Telford

    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...
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    Tramways in and around Nice

    Jose Banaudo writes, "As an extension of the Cannes Tramway route which linked Mandelieu, Cannes and Antibes, the TNL coastal line extended from Cap-d’Antibes to the Menton district of Garavan via Cagnes, Nice, Villefranche, Beaulieu , Monaco, Cap-Martin and Menton. These juxtaposed sections...
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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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