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STRANRAER FREIGHT
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TAUNTON IN TRANSITION
250th
ISSUE!
A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC DIESELS & ELECTRICS
ISSUE 250
MARCH/APRIL 2019
NORTH WALES COAST
IN THE ‘90S
A haven for loco-hauled trains
MARCH/APRIL 2019
|
£4.75
EUSTON SIGNAL BOX
BOULBY POTASH
CLASS 08s
Traffic on the line in the 1980s
The 63 years of…
THE LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY
• COACH LIGHTING
NOV/DEC 2017
|
£4.50
• DAPOL O SCALE HAA
• HELJAN O SCALE CLASS 25/3
• DOVINGTON CAMP - 4MM SCALE LAYOUT
9 771354 268149
A real-life account of 1970s operations
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Contents
6
Boulby Potash Traffic
Part 1: May 1981 to
December 1989
by Geoffrey Allen
14
Working at Euston
Power Signal Box
in the 1970s
by Andy Armitage
20
North Wales Coast
Loco Hauled
by Lewis Bevan
25
Dovington Camp
layout built
by Paul Taylor
30
An approach to coach
lighting
by Will Thompson
32
Heljan Class 25 and
Dapol HAA wagon
by Simon Bendall
35
TRACTION MODELLING
News
38
The Wednesbury and the
Dudley line in the 1970s -
Part Two by David J. Hayes
44
Wild Men and
Wild Places
by Richard MacLennan
50
Taunton in Transition
by Steve Randall
56
Class 08s at large
photos
by Gavin Morrison
60
The Liverpool
Overhead Railway
by Colin Boocock
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Welcome
It’s a real pleasure to write this introduction to TRACTION as
it represents something of a milestone for the magazine since it
is our 250th issue. I know many of our readers have every issue
since number 1!
The response to the increase in size of the magazine, which
started with the last issue, has been completely positive with
many readers taking the time to contact me.
We start this issue with a fascinating account of traf c on the
Boulby potash mine branch during the 1980s by Geoffrey Allen.
It’s the rst of several articles about this interesting and, in places,
spectacular line in north eastern England.
In complete contrast to this relatively quiet line, Andy Armitage
begins a series of articles about his time working at Euston Power
Signal Box in the 1970s. He kept detailed records of the traf c
at Euston on a daily basis, noting incidents and the method of
operations. In this part he looks at a week in September 1975
when he was on ‘late turn’ in the afternoon and evening.
For many years the North Wales Coast Line was a Mecca for
enthusiasts wanting to photograph and travel on loco hauled
passenger trains. Lewis Bevan visited the line several times in the
1990s to record these workings on lm and presents a selection.
David J. Hayes returns with the second part of his article about
the Wednesbury and the Dudley line in the 1970s with another
superb set of images of those long gone days of old style freight
operation.
Richard MacLennan was a driver based at Ayr depot and has
already recounted his experiences about driving passenger trains
to Stranraer. In this issue he describes driving freight trains over
the hills of Galloway in ‘Wild Men and Wild Places!’
In the mid 1980s Steve Randall visited Taunton to record the
nal year of semaphore signal operation before the multiple
aspect signalling swept away much that was attractive to the
enthusiast on this part of the Western Region.
The humble Class 08 shunter has tended to be ignored by
many enthusiasts so we felt it was time that it was featured
in TRACTION’s pages. Gavin Morrison’s photographs show
something of the variety of tasks that these useful locomotives
performed all over Britain.
An almost completely forgotten railway is the Liverpool
Overhead Railway which ran alongside the docks by the River
Mersey. Colin Boocock tells us about the history of this fascinating
line illustrated with many of his own photos taken in the 1950s.
TRACTION MODELLING features a delightful military inspired
layout; Dovington Camp in OO Gauge, by Paul Taylor, features
plenty of freight action, all in a highly realistic setting.
Will Thompson returns with another
constructional article, this time an
ingenious method of lighting the
interior of ready to run coaches. Our
review pages look at two recent O
Gauge models; the Heljan Class 25
and Dapol HAA wagon are, I’m sure,
enough to tempt many modellers
to build a layout in this increasingly
popular scale.
Stephen
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STRANRAER FREIGHT
•
TAUNTON IN TRANSITION
250th
ISSUE!
A CELEBRATION OF CLASSIC DIESELS & ELECTRICS
ISSUE 250
MARCH/APRIL 2019
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NORTH WALES COAST
IN THE ‘90S
A haven for loco-hauled trains
MARCH/APRIL 2019
|
£4.99
BOULBY POTASH
CLASS 08s
Traffic on the line in the 1980s
The 63 years of…
THE LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY
• COACH LIGHTING
NOV/DEC 2017
|
£4.50
• DAPOL O SCALE HAA
• HELJAN O SCALE CLASS 25/3
• DOVINGTON CAMP - 4MM SCALE LAYOUT
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