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We’ve received a bumper crop of new books this month, so here’s a special edition of Modeller’s Bookshelf, featuring a range of titles that will inform and inspire your modelling.

With the locomotive market in OO gauge now well and truly saturated, manufacturers have begun to turn to the still under-represented world of multiple units for new projects, with several key EMU desi

THE NEWLY-FORMED Bury Chopper Group, based at the East Lancashire Railway, has bought 20069 from Harry Needle, securing the loco’s future after it had been earmarked for disposal. The loco was collect

07013 – Bury: A few steps forward were made in early August when the locomotive was lifted from its wheels. All wheelsets require tyre turning to restore their profiles, and the Class 07’s sole AEI RT

PART TWO

With the fabled ‘Collection X’ locomotives out in the open at last, several are moving to pastures new. One locomotive moved to its new home by steam power – but not in the way you might expect. SIMON COLBECK was there to witness the extraordinary journey.