The Flying Scotsman
A big subject, this is supplementary info about changes in the formation during the 1930s.


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Various modelling-related subjects about traffics and rolling stock that are being worked up.
A big subject, this is supplementary info about changes in the formation during the 1930s.
More about the Anglo-Scottish Car Carrier.
The first streamlined train.
The second streamlined train.
A closer look at some of its carriages.
More on these portions in BR days.
Another BR period picture added.
An overview of the designs and service.
The "quad-art" and BR Mk.I eras.
GE services in the London area.
A restored colour picture of an LNER Sentinel rail car.
The vehicles and services
An overview of the designs and service.
A big and oft-misunderstood subject, this is an introduction.
Supplementary to various articles, mostly LNER, some GWR, LMS and SR.
An outline of cattle traffic around the UK.
Modelling LNER teak livery is not easy: here is some guidance based on prototype photos from the 1930s.
An overview of the different types in LNER and BR days and how they were used.
Four different types in LNER and BR days and how they were used.
The LNER buffet cars into BR days, starting with the conversions..
The LNER "standard" buffet cars from LNER to BR days.
More on the two cinema cars which ran during the 1930s.
An overview of the designs produced after WWII.
An overview of the designs produced after WWII.
Thompsons on the Culm Valley in Devon.

Two versions, ex-ECJS and
GNR. The historical stuff only (or
see the modelling section).
A look at the immediate precursors to the LNER 61'6" designs, built between 1906-22 and lasting into BR days.

Three oft-forgotten types, built on recovered underframes of two kinds, both NER-style.
An overview of the designs produced in the 1930s and '40s.
The historical and service notes 1927-1960 of this key type that was much used type on the ECML.
A look at the distinctive Thompson design born during WWII and lasting into the BR blue era.
Examination of two designs built for the GE Section in the 1920s, later going into parcels service.
A look at the brake van of 1921-24 which lasted until around 1960.
Examples of portions that were attached to long distance expresses and transferred between trains.
Expansion of a subject covered in Model Rail with focus on the portions.
A look at the brake composite and its development.
An overview of the traffic and the vehicles used.
Complete article about the traffic.
A historical overview

Much of the parcels traffic was conveyed
by normal service passenger trains.

With drawing and pictures from a Model Railway News of 1952.
Developments after Nationalisation in parcels trains.
Miscellaneous goods and Mk.1 coaches.
Various pictures from 1960s to 1980s.
Book review
Book review.
Book review
Article review.