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Looking through a number of 1964 Model Railway News magazines, I came across drawings of Sharp, Stewart & Co. 2-4-0, built in 1870 for the Furness Railway Co. and numbered 58 on their roster. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/29/furness-railway-locomotive-no-58/ Originally conceived as a mineral...

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. http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/03/26/the-north-british-locomo...

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/ma ... st-africa/

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 now be...

Railway news from East Africa in 2023 and early 2024. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2024/02/10/fe ... ard-gauge/

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 from Much...

The link in the last post appears not to work. This is the corrected link. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/12/14/th ... mes-no-94/

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 Contes a...

Dies ist der dritte Artikel über diese Eisenbahn und enthält Informationen über die Antriebskraft und das auf der Strecke eingesetzte Rollmaterial. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/12/13/th ... way-again/

Dieser zweite Artikel über die Strecke zwischen Knott End und Garstang vervollständigt die gesamte Länge der Strecke. Ich bin einer Reihe von Personen sehr dankbar für die Erlaubnis, ihre Fotos als Teil des Artikels zu veröffentlichen. Sie werden überall auf die Bilder verweisen. http://rogerfarnwor...

Im Januar 2020 blieben meine Frau und ich im Südosten der Stadt Lancaster und erkundeten das Gebiet zwischen der Lune-Mündung und der Wyre-Mündung. Es ist ein hervorragendes Gebiet, um überwinternde Vögel zu beobachten! Es gab mir eine weitere Gelegenheit, mir die Eisenbahnen in der Gegend anzusehen...

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/th ... nice-2023/

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. ... http://rogerfarnwort...

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: http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/11/13/nice-to-monte-carlo-branch-lines-la-lign...

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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 Place M...

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 fo...

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 Tramwa...

The next article in a series following through the second volume of Jose Banaudo's two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, "Nice au fil du Tram." http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/28/the-first-generation-electric-tramways-of-nice-again-five-more-lines-chemins-de-fer-de-pr...

Apologies, I did not provide the link mentioned at the end of the post above. It is:

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A return to Nice is in the offing and I have turned back to books by Jose Banaudo. Jose Banaudo published a two volume set of books about the historic trams of Nice, “Nice au fil du Tram.” This is the first of a series of articles based on the second volume. (Jose Banaudo; Nice au fil du Tram, Volum...

Early in the history of Railways, Plymouth used technologies which elsewhere were in use in the mining industries of the British Isles. Wooden and then iron tramroads were used in Plymouth in a more maritime context. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2023/09/21/ea ... -plymouth/

Derek Hayes: The Times, HarperCollins, 2017 I picked up a copy of this book in September 2023. It is large format Hardback book of 272 pages. The listed price is £30.00 but my copy cost me just over £10 plus postage and it is in an excellent pre-owned condition. I had anticipated a well-illustrated ...

The Purton Viaduct and the Purton Steam Carriage Road . .... On the road between Purton and Etloe on the Northwest side of the Severn Estuary there is a railway viaduct. Seemingly it sits remote from any former railway. Although you might just be forgiven for thinking that it is a remnant of the Fo...

This is a third article about railways in the Isle of Man. Each is a retrospective, looking back at events in the history of the railways. Modern Tramway Journal included a short article in October 1963 about developments in 1899 on the Isle of Man, and particularly about the use of 'Bonner Wagons' ...

I have been reading a lot of older magazines recently and thought forum members might find links to articles about the Isle of Man interesting. The first of these comes from the late 1950s when the Manx Electric Railway was nationalised. .... It was 1957 when the Manx Electric Railway was nationalis...

Die dritte Strecke der Micklehurst-Schleife führt vom Micklehurst Passenger Station House zur Chew Valley Road Bridge in Greenfield. ......

https://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/22/the-m...rst-loop-part-3

Ein weiterer Nachtrag zu meinem Beitrag über die erste Länge der Micklehurst-Schleife, in der unter anderem die beiden CEGB-Lokomotiven zu sehen sind, die die Kohleanlagen im Staley und Millbrook Goods Yard bedienten. ...

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/18/the-m...d-power-station

Ein zweiter Nachtrag zum ersten Beitrag über die Micklehurst-Schleife. Nur wenige Tage, nachdem ich den Nachtrag 1A über die erste Länge der Micklehurst-Schleife und insbesondere über den Bahnhof und den Güterbahnhof Staley und Millbrook fertiggestellt hatte, hörte ich von James Ward, der sich an ei...

Dies ist ein kurzer Nachtrag zu meinem ersten Artikel über die Micklehurst-Schleife, angeregt durch ein paar E-Mails von einem Online-Bekannten, Tony Jervis. ....

http://rogerfarnworth.com/2021/02/05/the-m...st-loop-part-1a