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CLASS 128 PARCELS DMUs • GERMAN ELECTRICS
A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC DIESELS & ELECTRICS
ISSUE 252
JULY/AUGUST 2019
EUSTON 1975
THE DAYTIME SHIFTS
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SOUTH
HUMBERSIDE STEEL TRAFFIC
•
‘HYMEKS’ IN THE THAMES VALLEY
•
NORWICH LOCO HAULED
07
KENSINGTON
Olympia revisited
• OO GAUGE LAYOUT: OULTON TMD
• PERSONALISING A HORNBY ‘CANISP
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Contents
6
South Humberside Steel
by David Ratcliffe
12
‘Hymeks’ in the
Thames Valley
by Andrew James
16
Summer Saturdays to
Great Yarmouth in 1993.
by Steven Goodrum.
20
Loco hauled days at
Norwich. Photos by
Gavin Morrison
25
Oulton TMD
Layout built by
Allan Cromarty’
30
Take one Hornby
‘Canisp’...
by Will Thompson
38
Working at Euston PSB
in the 1970s: Part 3
by Andy Armitage
44
The ‘County Durham
Crusader’
by Lewis Bevan
50
Kensington Olympia
revisited
by David J. Hayes
58
Class 128
Parcels DMUs
60
German electric
locomotives – Part 2
By Colin Boocock
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August
Welcome
Welcome to the July and August edition of TRACTION.
In this issue we start with a look at the freight scene on
South Humberside in the 1990s. David Ratcliffe photographed
and recorded details of the steel traffic being exported through
the docks at Grimsby and Immingham.
The ‘Hymek’ hydraulic locomotives were one of the shortest
lived classes of British main line diesels and, whilst successful
and reliable, they fell foul of the decision to concentrate on
diesel electric propulsion. Andrew James looks at their work on
express trains in the Thames Valley to see how they performed.
2019 marks a significant change in rail operations in
East Anglia with the ending of locomotive hauled trains to
Norwich and Great Yarmouth. We have two features to record
the changes that have taken place over the years. Steven
Goodrum looks back to the days of Class 47 hauled summer
Saturday trains to Great Yarmouth in 1993, whilst Gavin
Morrison’s photos of the Norwich area between 1979 and 2001
show the variety of power that could be seen in the city.
Andy Armitage concludes his account of working at Euston
Power Signal Box in the 1970s with a detailed look at day time
operations and the problems that occurred from time to time.
Rail tours are notorious for delays but nobody could have
predicted the problems of the ‘County Durham Crusader’ one
Saturday in March 1979. Not only was there heavy snowfall
but, earlier that day, the disastrous collapse of the roof of
Penmanshiel Tunnel had thrown the Easy Coast Main Line into
chaos. Lewis Bevan describes the events of the day and the
later successful re-running of the train in May of the same year.
Kensington Olympia and the West London Line have featured
several times in TRACTION over the years but, with more
information now available, David Hayes returns with a detailed
look at everyday freight operations in the 1970s, when the line
was busy with an incredible variety of traffic.
Colin Boocock concludes his article considering the parallel
development of German electric locomotives on both sides of
the Iron Curtain. In a perhaps surprising development, many
of the former East German locomotives migrated west, where
many of them continue to work long after most of their West
German equivalents had gone to the scrapyard.
Finally, we have two short photo features; the single unit
Class 128 parcels DMUs and timber trains in the Republic of
Ireland.
In TRACTION MODELLING, we take a look at Allan
Cromarty’s Oulton TMD
layout, which was expanded
far beyond the original plan
to build a diesel depot. Will
Thompson returns with some
more ideas of improving and
modifying Hornby Class 60s.
The next issue of TRACTION
will be on sale on Friday 2nd
August.
Stephen
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CLASS 128 PARCELS DMUs • GERMAN ELECTRICS
A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC DIESELS & ELECTRICS
SSUE 252
JULY/AUGUST 2019
EUSTON 1975
THE DAYTIME SH FTS
•
‘HYMEKS’ IN THE THAMES VALLEY
•
NORWICH LOCO HAULED
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JU Y/AUGUST 2019 £4 75
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SOUTH
HUMBERSIDE STEEL TRAFFIC
07
KENSINGTON
Olympia revisited
• OO GAUGE LAYOUT: OULTON TMD
• PERSONALISING A HORNBY ‘CANISP
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86023 is seen ready to leave
Euston with the 13:40 Euston to
Wolverhampton on 3rd July 1975.
GRAHAM SMITH/ RAIL PHOTOPRINTS
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