I suspect the best way to look at this is to think of a gradually improving situation from no protection at all in very early slow moving locos to...
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...
Some of the locos that served on metre-gauge lines and 3ft 6in lines were very powerful. The Garratts in particular were monsters.
I am not sure where all those links came from. I posted just the one link: ......
The NZ Model Railway Guild magazines show a series of models of what looks generally like US outline rolling stock. Although the regular track...
Yes, they do have similarities to US locos! But built at the North British factory in Glasgow.
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...
Before World War 1, Mallet locomotives were seen as being the best motive power on the metre-gauge/950mm-gauge lines in East 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....
Yes, quite stop and start but hopefully effective in the long term.
Railway news from East Africa in 2023 and early 2024. .......
The first link in my last post is broken. This should work. ......
This is a first article about the Wenlock Branch and covers the length from Buildwas to Much Wenlock. ......
The Lilleshall Company's Railways again. ... This next article covers the length of the Lilleshall Company railway network from their Grange...
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,...
Yes. There is a pattern of this happening in Ireland, less so in the UK but still happened frequently. They were good sized small family homes,...
After a lengthy delay, this is a third article about the branch and it includes information about motive power and the rolling stock used on the...
Much is now highly urbanised. I have tried, where I could, in the articles about the earlier tramways, to show the locations of older photos, as...
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. ......
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...