OO Gauge: Dapol JNA Wagon
A large fleet of 555 Romanian-built bogie open wagons was delivered to Network Rail in 2004 and they have since become a common sight across the country, carrying ballast and spoil in connection with infrastructure work. Nicknamed ‘Falcons’ (for reasons unknown) and painted in a distinctive all yellow livery, the wagons…
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OO Gauge: Bachmann Class 66 (32-978)
The Class 66 can hold it’s origins back to that of the Class 59 in terms of european builds, Stateside, the equivalent to these locos is the SD40-2. It’s one of General Motors most popular exports, with over 1000 locomotives built powering freight trains in 10 different countries on mainline europe – a definate success. Britain…
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OO Gauge: LNER Class A3 Pacific Loco
Flying Scotsman is perhaps the worlds most famous steam locomotive. Being the only LNER A3 Pacific in preservation, it has had quite a tough career. It’s the only loco to circumnavigate the globe, touring in the United States in 1972. Fears about the continued preservation of Flying Scotsman arose when Pegler’s (4472s owner…
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OO Gauge: LMS Princess Royal Review
Stanier introduced the “Princess Elizabeth” class in the early 30s, originally to haul the “Royal Scot” service from London Euston to Glasgow Central. For this job, Stanier needed something more substantial than the tradition Black 5s, and considering 8Fs were built for freight, Crewe Works gave birth to thirteen examples…
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OO Gauge: Bachmann Class 70 Review
The onset for design of newly built diesel locomotives after orders placed by Freightliner meant that the birth of new traction was not far. With plans revealed in November 2007 for the Powerhaul loco, the anticipation was building. The anticipation and demand for a model equivalent was also quite large, leading…
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Railworks: Bristol To Exeter Review
JustTrains have recently re-released this route via Steam, as more and more people are using Steam as their main purchasing hub. It’s a good idea as it gets a bit more publicity for them aswell. This route follows the 85 mile stretch between Exeter St. Thomas (St. David is included aswell) to Bristol Temple Meads…
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Railworks: WCML North Review
As the name suggests, the route follows the West Coast Main Line from Carlisle, running the entire 102 miles upto Glasgow Central. Major stations along the way feature, such as Carstairs and Motherwell, all faithfully modelled with beautiful results! Carlisle is probably my favourite modelled station. Everything right down to the…
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Railworks: Peppercorn A1 “Tornado” Review
Despite this loco now somewhat “showing it’s age” being released in December 2009, I still to this day look forward to getting home from work or college some nights and giving Tornado a good thrash! This was one of the earlier assets created by RSC, but there is little difference in quality as to what is being produced these days…
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Railworks: Glasgow Airport Rail Link Review
This route, although considered small, set a fine standard for what was Totalize Media (now Thomson Interactive). The route covers a distance of less than 10 miles over the main stretch of track (Glasgow Central – Glasgow Airport), but various track pieces are drivable. One good part of the route has to be Shields…
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Railworks: Edinburgh To Glasgow Review
Thomson Interactive, previously TotalizeMedia of Glasgow Airport Rail Link fame, presented the Railworks community with this faithful reproduction of the CityLink route in the last week of March 2011. After seeing various screenshots prior to release I could tell that the quality was going to be as good as, if not…
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