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Rail Enthusiast 1983 November 9000 Comes Home
Rail Enthusiast 1983 November 9000 Comes Home
Rail Enthusiast is published monthly. Front Cover, Front cover: A sight for sore eyes as the first production "Deltic", 9000 Royal Scots Grey, which hauled the last main-line special from Edinburgh to Kings Cross on January 2, 1982, prepares for her journey to the Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough - and a secure future - on Wednesday, September 7. Photo: Paul Johnston.
Contents
The shape of things to come
Geoffrey Freeman Allen analyses the British Railways Board's Five-Year Plan - and is
disturbed by some of its proposals.Page 6
9000 comes home
The former 55022 Royal Scots Grey is now secure at the Nene Valley Railway, Peterborough.
We tell the full story.Page 15
Your letters
A big selection this month, including comments on loco nicknames, the Highland lines - and a
letter from a reader in the Falklands!Page 23
The Roaring Forties
C. H. Wrate tells the story of 40126 - the loco in the Great Train Robbery - and Robert H.
Cruickshank recalls his pursuit of the "Black Widow", 40193.Page 28
Side-by-side
A superb selection of colour transparencies taken by Dick Riley, in the years when steam,
diesel and electric worked side-by-side.Page 31
Goose-pimples, Aussie-style!
A chilling horn blast, a light stabbing at the dark, and a huge American diesel rumbles by on a
heavy freight ... it's all part of Bob Avery's report.Page 34
A day at "The Plant"
Malcolm Roughley visits Doncaster Works to see how a Class 37 locomotive goes through a
major overhaul.Page 38
Ten Lima HST sets to be won
Why not enter our simple competition for nearly worth of super-detail "00" gauge HSTs?
And every entrant gets a free catalogue!Page 41
Luxury of the Blue Train
Nick Dodson travels on South Africa's prestige "Blue Train" - and is amazed at what can be
squeezed into a narrow-gauge carriage.Page 51
Also: RDS Column, Page 14; News lines, Page 15; All Change, Page 42; Readers' Round-Up, Page 43; Works Report, Page 56; Looking Ahead, Page 57; Around the Regions, Page 59; Books, Page 60.
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