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Last month a HST on a test run for Network Rail derailed at Dalwhinnie in Scotland. It appears that a facing crossover at the southern end of the station with a 15 mph speed limit permitted part of the train to divert from the up line to the down line while it had reached 30 mph. The signals...

The York, Newcastle & Berwick Railway built a branch to Warkworth Harbour in 1849 to haul coal for shipping by sea. The junction, named Amble Junction left the main line at approximately 26½ miles from Newcastle and was 4 miles 79 chains (5 miles) to the station buffer stops, with the end of...

BTP 0-4-4T and Driving Van Composites to Diagrams 116 and 162. The arrival of one hundred and ten Wilson Worsdell “O” Class 0-4-4T tank engines between 1894 and 1901 on the North Eastern Railway network displaced the one hundred and twenty-four veteran Fletcher Bogie Tank Passenger 0-4-4T...

When running a steam locomotive session across the Forth Rail bridge in Edinburgh & Dundee I noticed that locomotive smoke appears to be significantly offset to one side. I have seen this effect in T:ANE where it was about a couple of metres (6 feet approx), but this looks more like ten metres...

Following an enquiry about the make-up of the UK's East Coast Joint Stock Expresses, I am posting a thread showing the allocations for Summer 1914 (June - Sept) derived from work published by Michael Harris and Ken Hoole. This post will deal with the overall view of the Down trains. Further...

I have managed to buy five out of six articles from 1974 by D. Rowland contained in "Model Railways" Magazine. While they are now almost 45 years old they were compiled at a time when the period he talked about was within living memory of the adults who worked the railway. He started research...

Northeast England during the steam era. Here is a trailing view in pregrouping days just before World War I at South Pelaw Junction on the Consett branch. A North Eastern Railway T2 Class 0-8-0 is at the foot of Pelton bank on the 1896 deviation. A NER P Class 0-6-0 stands behind in the loops at...

Napierdeltic's fine ECML Kings Cross - Edinburgh Route appears to have some anomalies on my T:ANE SP1 build 80349. Landscape has missing textures and some assets appear to be missing (FMA bank and a footbridge support?). However, the route shows no warnings, errors nor any missing dependencies...