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COMMADY' OF ERRORS... Notes by Eric Youldon - People rail these days against the decline of the comma, the apostrophe and other building blocks of punctuation and language. In 1948 Brighton Works put a comma where, strictly speaking, one should be but well, it was ridiculous... SEEING DOUBLE - Notes by Bryan Wilson. RILEYS RAILWAY ROUNDABOUT - 'We Did Like To Be Beside The Seaside' - Riley's Railway Roundabout kicks off with Teignmouth in the summer of 1959. Whatever meterological records might say, black and white photographs taken in good summer light confirms for all of us the memory of the perfect West Country summer of legend... MOTOR TRAINS OF THE RUGBY DISTRICT - Their Motive Power and Workings - By Ray Fox and Mike Kinder - In the 1950s the Rugby District saw a remarkably extensive range of push/pull workings, continuing until as late as October 1965 with the final example of motor train working in the country. BRIDGE 53A - By Keith Miles - WONDERS WITHIN - Yet more of the GN. Preview pictures for some truly remarkable pictures in the new BRILL Annual No. 10 - and there's a competition to win a copy... K1 CONTRAST CLAMOUR AT CRICKLEWOOD ANOTHER BRIDGE FOURUM 14 - Ready for the Arrow DIESEL DAWN (meets Nocturne) - There were classes of diesel that proved unworthy of the tasks intended for them, and these were sooner or later done away with. The BRCW Type 2 D5300 series, however, must be slightly unusual in that some months after introduction they were found to be to heavy for certain vital duties. Intoduced in 1958, come 1960 they were hurried away to Scotland, never to be seen again. ENDPIECE - The Southampton Town Quay shunter, C14 0-4-OT 3741 in April 1950. This is the world of byways we miss today, lazy track looping across the public road lined with ordinary houses; 'stuff lying around. If you like tired old tanks tucked away in corners you need - Railway Bylines', alone it flies the flag for the rustic, the roadside and the run-down, wharves and works, mines and mills. A READER WRITES
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