Traction

A celebration of classic diesel and electric locomotives. A bi-monthly publication that includes articles by drivers, railwaymen and enthusiasts. You’ll also find a Traction Modelling section. Most articles are UK-based but you can expect some from Europe.

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Traction

A Morning at Mossend Yard • John Dedman describes a visit to the major freight hub of Mossend Yard near Motherwell in June 1989.

Remembering the MoD Trains: Part 2 • Stand at ease as David J. Hayes concludes his look back at these trains during the post-Speedlink era by overviewing such operations in the privatisation period

Warwells and Warflats

My 22 Old Friends: Part 1 • For some time Ben Wyvis has thought about producing a definitive list of his most poignant memory of each of the Class 55 ‘Deltic’ locomotives. The list, as you would expect, is personal and based on nothing more than memories from 40 years or more ago.

ANNESLEY WOODHOUSE • Simon Lawson found an ideal trackplan for this Nottinghamshire-based layout, which is a mirror-image duplicate.

Heljan Class 86

New ‘26’ introduced for Scottish show

Accurascale reveals new Class 31 for ‘OO’

Class 59 for ‘N’ – first images of working EP

Liverpool Lime Street • There are few more dramatic terminal stations in Britain than Liverpool Lime Street. With its superb overall roof, high retaining walls and bridges as well as tunnels at the station exit the location gives the photographer plenty of scope for interesting compositions, something that Gavin Morrison has used to good effect on many visits over the years.

Early Belgian electrics: Part 2 • Colin Boocock continues his survey of Belgian electric locomotives tracing developments from the 1960s.

The great diesel traction extinction event • During the two years either side of 1970, one third of BR’s diesel classes became extinct. David Clough explains why.

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