The Railway Magazine – August 2019

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August2019 •TheRailway Magazine•57

http://www.famoustrains.org.uk.

SUNDAY,AUGUST18.................

GuildfordModel EngineeringSociet yOpen

Afternoon .StokePark, London Rd,Guildfor d,

Surrey GU11TU.14.00-17.00 http://www.gmes.org.uk.

Norfolk &SuffolkNarrow Gauge

ModellersExhibition .Mid-SuffolkLightRailway,

BrockfordStation, Wetheringsett, Stowmarket,

SuffolkIP145PW.11.00-16.30.

Adult£10,concession £8,child£5, family

£25. http://www.mslr.c o.uk.

SATURDAY, AUGUST24...............

Bournville ModelRailwayClubExhibition.

TheHolly moorCentre,8Manor Park Gr ove,

Northfield, BirminghamB315ER.10.00-16.30.

Adult£5, conces sion £4,family£9.

http://www.bournvillemrc.c o.uk.

NorthCornwall and DevonModel Railway

Club-BudeModel Railway Exhibition.

TheParkhouseCentre,Ergue -Gaberic Way, Bude,

Cornwall EX23 8LD. 10.00-16.30.

Adult£3, family£6, child free.

HillingdonRailwayModellers’TestTrack.

YiewsleyBaptist Church Hall, 74 ColhamAve,

Yiewsley,HillingdonUB7 8HF. 10.00-15.00.

Adult£5. http://www.hillingdonrailwaymodellers.co.uk.

Northampton&DistrictModelRailwayClub

50thAnniversaryAnnualExhibition.

RoadeVillageHall, Bailey BrooksLane,Roade,

Northants NN72LS.10.00-16.00.

Adult£4, chil d£2, family£8. ndmrc.org.

SATURDAYSUNDAY, AUGUST 24 25...

UlsterModel RailwayClub-Belfast Model

Railway Exhibition .Sports Hall, Methodist

College, Malo ne Rd,Belfast, Co. Antr im

BT96BY.Saturda y10.00-17.00,Sunday12.00-

17.00. Adult£4, co nces sion £3,child£2, family

£10.www.ulstermodelrailwayclub .co.uk.

Hawick&Distric tRailw ay Society-Border

Rail 2019 .TheAuldBaths ,BathSt, Hawick

TD9 7DP. Saturday10.00-17.00,Sunday10.00-

16.00. Adult£4, co nces sion £3,child£2.

http://www.bordersmodelra ilwayclub.co m.

Burnhamand DistrictModelRailway

Club -SedgemoorRail 2019 .King Alfred

School ,BurnhamRd,Highbridge,Somerset

TA95EE.10.00-16.00.Adult £5,famil y£10.

http://www.burnhamanddmrc.co .uk.

Inverness&Distric tModel Railway Club

Annual Exhibition .Jurys Inn, Millburn

Rd,InvernessIV2 3TR. Saturday10.00-17.00,

Sunday 10.00-16.00. Adult£5.

http://www.invernessmrc.org.uk.

SATURDAYMONDAY,AUGUST 24 26..

Gainsborough ModelRailway SocietyOpen

Day .Gainsb oroughModel Ra ilway, Floren ce

Terrace, Gainsb orough, Lincs DN21 1BE. Saturd ay

&Sunday13.30-17.30,Monday 10.30-17.00.

Adult£4, co nces sion £3,child£3, family£10.

http://www.gainsboroughmodelrailwayclub.co.uk.

Friends oftheStaple ford Miniatu re Railway

OpenWeekend .Stapleford MiniatureRailway,

OldForgeYd,Stapleford,MeltonMowbray, Leics

LE14 2SF. 10.00-16.30. Adult£5, chil d£3.

http://www.fsmr.org.uk.

SUNDAY, AUGUST25.................

Hoddesdon Model andRailw ay

Club-Modelling Extravaganza.

OldMill, Mill Lane,Broxbourne,Herts EN10 7AX.

10.00-16.00Adult £3,child£1.

http://www.hod desdonmrc.or g.uk

SUNDAYMONDAY,AUGUST 25 26....

Corris Railway SocietyModel Railway

Exhibition .ThePlas,AberystwythRd,

MachynllethSY208ER.10.00-16.30.

Adult£4, co nces sion £3.50, chil d£2, family£10.

http://www.corri s.co.uk.

MONDAY,AUGUST26................

Harrogate ModelRailw ay Group Exhibiti on.

BiltonGrange UnitedReformed Church,corner

of Skipton Rd/WoodfieldRd,Harrogate HG14LF.

10.00-16.00. Ad ult£4, chil d£2, family£10.

AUGUST 31 SEPTEMBER1............

AlnValleyRailw ayTrust -Model Rail Exhibition

2019 .LionheartStation, LionheartEnterprise

Park,Alnwick, NorthumberlandNE662EZ.10.30-

16.30. Adult£4, chil d£2, family£10.

http://www.alnvalley railway.co.uk.

Darlington Model Railway ClubExhibition.

Darlington RailwayMuseum,North Rd

Station, Darlington DL36ST.10.00-16.00

(A1Trust will be open onSaturdayonly).

Adult£6.50,concession £6,child £3 ,famil y£13.

Holly combeSteam intheCountryModel

Weeken d .HollycombeSteam in theCountry,

Iron Hill, Midhurst Rd,Liphook,Hampshire.

11.00-17.00.Ad ult £17, conces sion £15, child£14,

family£55.www.holly combe.co .uk.

SoarValleyModel RailwayClub -The Heartof

the MidlandsLoughboroughModel Railway

Exhibition .LoughboroughGrammarSchool,

Leices terRd, Loughborough, LeicsLE112DU.

Saturday10.00-17.00,Sunday10.00-16.00.

Adult£8, child£4, family£20.www.svmrc.c o.uk.

Gauge OGuild -Guilde x2019.

TheInternationalCentr e, St Quentin’s

Gate,Telfor d, Shrops hire TF34JH.

Saturday10.00-17.00,Sunday10.00-16.00

Members£10,non-members £15(redu cedto

£10 if vi sitorjoins theGuild).

http://www.gauge0guild.com/events/event s.aspx

SATURDAY,AUGUST31...............

AndoverModel Railway Club Open Day.

TheLights,WestSt, Andover, HantsSP10

1AH. 10.00-16.00.

http://www.andovermodelrailwayclub.co.uk/

Western Steam 1948-1966

By BenBrooksbank andPeterTuffrey

THIS new book from

authorPeterTuffrey

and photographer

BenBrooksbank

is their fifth

collaboration, and

takes thereader on

apictorial journey

through the British

RailwaysWestern

Region in steam days.

From immediately post-Nationalisation

to the last days ofWestern Region steam

in 1965,Benphotographedawide sweep

of theregion fromPaddingtonto Dawlish,

Gloucesterto Shrewsbury, andWrexham

and Swansea.

He thereforecaptured manyoft he

ex-GWR locomotivetypes in action, be

them absorbed locos from pre-Grouping

companies or the latest Hawksworth and

Riddles machines.This bookcelebrates

them all.

An attrac tivefeatur eoft he book is the

wayitispresentedalphabeticallyrather

than by area.

As aresult it jumps around so thatone

minuteyou’relooking at‘Castle’No. 5078

Beaufortat Dawlish in 1964 (mistakenly

namedBeaufortHallin the caption) and

turn the page and there’sthe curving

lines ofaDean‘Duke’4-4-0at Didcot in

May1948.

The‘Duke’isnot the onlyrarityfeatured,

as Bencapturedex-TaffVale tanks,Dean

‘2021’panniers,RhymneyRailway‘S1’

0-6-0Ts,‘Saints’, ‘DeanGoods’, ex-Cambrian

0-6-0s,and even Crosti‘9Fs’onhis tr avels.

Theproductionvalues of the book are

good,being printedongood qualitypaper

with about three photos per double-page

spread,each accompaniedby adetailed

caption. All photos areinblack &white.

Overall ,itisaverywell puttogether

volume andafitting tributetoBen

Brooksbank,who passedawaybeforeit

waspublished.Recommended.GBH

Great NorthernBooks, PO Box1380, Bradford

BD5 5FB; Hardback;208pp; 250x185mm;

ISBN: 978-1-912101-12-2; £19.99

BritishRailways in Unseen

Colour 1948-1968

By KevinRobertson

IFYOUweretoc hoose oneword to describe

this new book from CrecyPublishing,then

‘superb’would likely suffice.

‘Wow’would also beacontender.

Volumes of previously unseen images

arealwaysadelight,

and thiscollection

of colour work from

the late RoyVincent

does not disappoint.

While not aswell-

knownass ome of

his contemporaries,

Roy’sphotographs areeasily on apar with

theirs,and being incolour offerabright

new lookat theheyda yofBRsteam.

As the introduction notes,despitethe fact

some of the slides arenow almost 70years

old,their condition isexcellent.

Thebook is laid out with one ortwo

images per page,each accompaniedby

adetailed caption.Thesubjectmatte ris

varied andwell illustratesthe breadth of

RoyVincent’simages,fromgems such

as GreatEastern‘E4’2-4-0s and LNER

articulatedelectric stock,LondonTransport

0-6-2Tsand theWelshpool&Llanfair

Railway in 1956, andLyme Regis and

Bodmin&Wadebridge branches.

Yetthe book alsocovers the less obvious

subjectmatte r–the Marland LightRailway

in Devon, aPullman campingcoach at

Heacham, signalling,station furnitureand

breakdown equipment. Whether spotless

and gleaming orwork-stained andweary,

they have aplace in this book

Thanks to superbreproduction and

high-qualitypaper the photographs left

this reviewerwantingmoreafter every

page,and at £20 it iswell worththe money.

Highly recommended.GBH

Crec yPublishing,1ARingwayTrading Estate,

Shadowmoss Road,Manchester M22 5LH;

Hardback;208pp; 250x250mm; ISBN: 978-1-

909328-83-9; £20.00

By ChrisBoothand Alex Fisher

SHEFFIELD is one of Britain’s largest

and most industrialised cities.Thatitno

longer possesses major freightfacilities

or alocomotivedepot is little shortof

astonishing.

This impressivebook takes us back

to the days when theSouthYorkshire

metropoliswasone of the most

importantplacesonthe Britishrailway

map,possessingamarshalling yard

of vast proportions and arguably the

nation’s most famous diesel depot.

Thesteel cit yand its environs once

boasted several major steam sheds but

we don’t even have to go back as far as

thatfor this story, forTinsley wasvery

muchaproductoft he diesel era.

It wasbuilt in the 1960sto replace

whatwas describedat thetime as a

“chaotic and incoherent”system in which

dozens of small goodsyardsand sidings

required shunting and tripworking in

orderto function.At one time the depot

(coded 41A)boastedalocoalloc ationof

morethan 200, one of the largest in the

countr y.

This thoroughlyresearched 240-page

book uses morethan 400 photographs

and diagrams,manyinc olour.The

first 40 or so pages aredevotedto a

fascinatingcollection of historic and

nostalgic illustrations depicting locations

such as Aldwarke, Canklo w, Darnall,

Grimesthorpe,Ickles ,Masborough,

Nunnery, Parkga te andthe Sheffield

DistrictRailway.

Thenextfew sections deal with the

birth of the shed andyard, fe aturing

rarely seen photos of itsconstruction.

Theformal opening date wasOctober

29, 1965 withformer BRB chairmanLord

Beeching unveiling the plaque.Thereare

chapters onTinsley’s Class 13 master-

and-slave shunters,breakdown trains,

electrified lines and tripworkings...as

well as 41A’s unofficial naming policy,

which producedasuccession of‘celebrity

locomotives’.

Closures and track-lifting of parts of the

yard began as early as 1984–less than

20 years afterthe opening–emphasising

howrapidly Britain’s post-industrial

landscapewaschanging.The depot

finally closed onMarch27, 1998, having

possessedat least 288 differently

numbered Class 47sat variou stimes of its

life. Todayacar dealers hip stands where

its 12 dead-endroads oncemaintained

traction ofafar morepowerful variety,

whileamassivelogistics building has

obliteratedthe eastern half of theyard.

Thebook finishes withacollection

of personalreminiscences fromformer

members of staff.

Theprice reflects its high production

values and it will hopefully provea

worthwhile purchaseformodern traction

enthusiasts andSouthYorkshiremen

alike.NP

Platform5Publishing Ltd, 52 Broadfield Rd,

Sheffield S8 0XJ; 240pp,Hardback;

302x215mm; ISBN 978-1-909431-24-9;

£34.95.

TINSLEY AND THE MODERNISATION OF SHEFFIELD’S RAILWAYS

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