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In welcoming you to the first BT of 2023, I feel I must start by referring back to the December issue and the article on the Manchester to Bury line and its various electrifications, for I was transported back to my old home town and its trains… I wa

Sharp-eyed readers will have spotted that the lettters in the November ‘Readers’ Forum’ were given a second airing in the December issue. Apologies for that but sometimes, computers being what they are, these things unfortunately happen… We’re please

Excellent Very Good Good Fair Poor by John Jennison. Published by the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. ISBN 978-0-99349808-7-3. 258pp hardback. £29.50. This is the latest production in the RCTS’s ‘Locomotives of the LMS Series’ and was there