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PORTUGESE TRACTION
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WATERLOO AFTERNOON
A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC DIESELS & ELECTRICS
ISSUE 249
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
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£4.75
FEBRUARY 1986
Journeys with a
Young Person’s
Railcard
DUDLEY
1970s West Midlands freight
NOV/DEC 2017
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£4.50
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• BRITISH OXYGEN TANKERS REVIEW
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Contents
6
The Wednesbury and
the Dudley line in the
1970s: Part One by
David J. Hayes
14
DEMUs on the South
Western photographs
by Phil Barnes
16
Looking Back
by Neville Fickling
20
Way out West in the
Seventies photographs
by Trevor Ermel
25
Blue is the Colour
layout built by
Norman Jones
30
Class 25s for
Kensington Olympia
by Andy Gibbs
34
Olivia’s Trains BOC
TEA and VAA wagons
by Andy York
35
TRACTION MODELLING
News
38
Fabulous February
Flings by
Charles Mackintosh
42
Moving the dump to
Forders
by Mick Humphrys
46
Return to Rhymney
by Tom Braund
50
An Afternoon at
Waterloo Station
by Andy Sparks
56
Great Eastern diesels
photographs by Gavin
Morrison
60
Early Portuguese
Traction
by Colin Boocock
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Welcome
Welcome to the rst issue of TRACTION in 2019, although
of course, due to publishing dates, the magazine appears in
December 2018. I am sure that you will have noticed immediately
that this issue (and future ones) is considerably larger, with an
additional 12 pages of articles, news and reviews. We hope you
like the changes.
In his article ‘The Wednesbury and the Dudley line in the 1970s’,
David J. Hayes continues his series about freight lines in the West
Midlands with the rst of a two-part feature about the area.
The Class 205 and 207 DEMUs, that for many years worked
local trains on the South Western Division of the Southern Region,
are the subject of a photo study by Phil Barnes, who fortunately
pointed his camera lens at these less than glamorous trains.
In his article ‘Looking Back’ Neville Fickling recalls his early
teenage years as a train spotter in East Anglia and, more daringly,
on trips to the London area.
With the current change from Great Western HSTs to the new
Class 802 IETs, it is an appropriate time to look back to an earlier
generation of motive power on express services in the West
Country. Trevor Ermel’s photographs transport us back to the
days of locomotive haulage when you were never quite certain
what would turn up on the front of a train.
Charles Mackintosh relates the incredible story of his exploits
during February 1986 when he used his Young Persons’ Railcard
to travel extensively across Britain during his journeys to
interviews at various universities. The title ‘Fabulous February
Flings’ says it all, as he travels the network in search of Class 47
haulage!
We are pleased to welcome back North London driver Mick
Humphrys with his account of working freight trains conveying
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spoil from road construction to the dump at Forders Sidings.
The shortage of DMUs to operate the Valley Lines’ services
prompted the temporary reintroduction of locomotive hauled trains
in South Wales during the 1990s. Tom Braund travelled to the area
several times to photograph and travel on these services between
Cardiff and Rhymney.
A business meeting in London in 1982 gave Andy Sparks a chance
to spend an afternoon at Waterloo Station and in his article he recalls
what is now, in many ways, a long disappeared face of the capital’s
railways.
Gavin Morrison’s photo feature in this issue shows the days of
diesels on the Great Eastern lines out of Liverpool Street. This is
another route where the remaining locomotive hauled services are
about to disappear in favour of new electric multiple units.
This issue’s European feature, by Colin Boocock, looks at the early
years of diesel and electric traction on the Portuguese railways in the
1960s, with a surprising amount of British equipment.
TRACTION MODELLING’s featured layout is ‘Blue is the Colour’,
a delightful N Gauge layout that can be operated to represent lines
both on the Welsh border and in southern Scotland. Staying with N
Gauge, Andy Gibbs continues his series of articles about models for
his Kensington Olympia layout. This time it is modi cation work on
a Graham Farish Class 25. From this issue
onwards there will also be a modelling news
and review section to allow readers to keep
up to date with diesel and electric era model
releases.
As this issue is published in December I’d
like to wish all our readers and advertisers a
happy Christmas and a successful 2019.
Stephen
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PORTUGESE TRACTION
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WATERLOO AFTERNOON
A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC DIESELS & ELECTRICS
ISSUE 249
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019
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• ‘BLUE IS THE COLOUR’ LAYOUT IN N
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