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    Jun 04, 2019 3 minutes

    Early Railways: A Guide for the Modeller

    By Peter Chatham & Stephen Weston (hardback, Pen & Sword, 120pp, £19.99, ISBN 1526700166

    HERE is a wonderful window onto an amazing new world.

    Remember Tri-ang’s OO model of Stephenson’s and carriages, and the GWR and chocolate-and-cream clerestory coaches which appeared in the Sixties? Understandably for commercial reasons, the major manufacturers of proprietary models have steered clear of an esoteric subject like early railways, instead opting for the tried and tested familiar 20th-centrury outlines with their mass

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