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HERITAGE LINES REOPEN Cautious return for preserved railways

MIDDLETON AT 60

Pioneer line marks Diamond Jubilee

Essential reading for today’s rail enthusiast

MASKS ON!

No. 196 DIESEL AND ELECTRIC ERA MODELLING

Modern GWR ‘Castle Class’

New Hornby Mk.3SD trailers arrive

MODELLING SECTION

■ ‘O’ GAUGE ‘50s’ More Heljan ‘Hoovers’

■ DEMU MODELLING 3 Newsdesk: Class 92 engineering prototypes

The amazing level of detail being applied to Accurascale’s Class 92 becomes apparent with views of the first engineering samples. Irish Railway Model’s A-Class locomotive livery samples also arrive for approval.

4 Newsdesk: Gas turbine liveries and ‘O’ gauge Class 50s

New releases may be on the slow side, but announcements came thick and fast recently with new Heljan ‘O’ Class 50s, Gas Turbine loco liveries and planned re-issues of popular models.

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Newsdesk: Hornby rollingstock releases

Popular models return to the Hornby range including the BR ferry van as a departmental wagon; KFAs loaded with new containers and faux MSV aggregate wagons.

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D&E Files: HDL’s Thumper No. 1001.

Inspiration for modellers looking for something different to run on a privatisation-era layout.

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Modelling: Hastings main line DEMUs

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Review: ‘OO’ gauge industrial details

Kit Corner: How to build Hastings main line DEMU vehicles from DC Kits components part 1: Long frame vehicles.

Scrap metal, gas cylinders, refuse and white goods appear in the Goodwood Scenics range.

19 Review: GWR Mk.3 power sliding door trailers. The first of a two-part review of the new ‘OO’ gauge Hornby Mk.3SD trailers looks at the GWR version.

22 Review: Hornby Super GUV revisited as QQA.

Hornby applies authentic Network Rail yellow livery to its ageing but popular Super GUV model which is finished as one of the QQA departmental vans.

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Review: Beer on rail Irish style

Modern CIÉ beer keg liner trains can now be modelled in ‘OO’ gauge using Irish Railway Models 42ft. container wagon packs supplied with intermodal keg cages and stacks of aluminium beer kegs.

RAIL EXPRESS MODELLER EDITOR Nigel Burkin

REMeditor@mortons.co.uk

Tackling Hastings No. 1001

■ Mk.3s REVIEWED GWR sliding door vehicles

Printed in the UK

CIÉ BEER KEG LINERS

REMEMBERING THE

BLUE PULLMAN BR’s 1960s vision of a luxury future

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Lockdown eases, demand rises and timetables head back to normal