Category: NBR
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If you build it, they will come.
Twenty-five years ago; if you had told me that in the 21st Century I’d be riding down the re-born Waverley Route behind a Peppercorn A1 Class locomotive I would have asked you what you’d just dropped. Man… On Sunday the 13th September 2015, though no illicit chemistry of any sort was involved, that’s exactly what…
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The Scottish School
Back in the autumn of 1977, when it appeared that the railway interest I’d picked up in the summer wasn’t going away anytime soon, I joined the East Kilbride Model railway club. At that time, they had their ‘Nerston Junction’ layout in operation and to a new enthusiast like me, it was a thing of…
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Possible new Reid Atlantic kit from 52F
(Image courtesy of WRHA Archive.) Whilst a number of kits exist for models of the Caledonian and Highland Railways’ larger locomotives, there is nothing similar for the NBR (sorry, I just don’t like the full title!) 🙂 equivalent, WP Reid’s impressive Atlantic Class locomotives. Built in the early 1900s to handle crack East Coast services…
Max Stafford's Kennel 