MRC 1983 May

Good condition.

Test Bench: Mainline Railways LNER class N2 0-6-2T locomotive. Text, picures.
Picture, the prototype of Mainline's model seen as LNER class N2 0-6-2T No.9522 in apple green livery at Neasden in August 1947. Note the bunker and tank handrails, the tank front steps and the cab roof rainstrip. B/W.
Picture, LNER class N2 0-6-2T No.4753 in LNER black livery showing the standard style destination board. B/W.
Scenic Techniques, the Village Forge. Text, pictures.
Easter 1982, a wagon safari. (Paul W. Bartlett, British Railways Historical Study Group, Historical Model Railway Society).
A new attraction at the National Railway Museum. The story of Model Railways. Text, picture.
LMS Walker 'Cruiser' 6-ton Crane. Text, pictures, drawings. (M.W. Nagington).
Picture, the prototype Walker Cruiser at Wigan in 1943. B/W.
Picture, a later-style Walker mobile crane in British Railways livery loading a container at the Royal Show, Blackpool. B/W.
Picture, one of the first examples of a Walker mobile crane supplied to the LMS, a solid-tyred vehicle, seen at Wigan in April 1930. B/W.
Datafile: Freight wagons of British Railways 2, the 20-ton standard goods brake van. Text, drawings, pictures. (Roger Silsbury, drawings Trevor Mann).
Fit for a Queen, the Great Western Railway 1897 Diamond Jubilee Royal Train in EM-gauge. Text, drawings, diagrams, pictures. All about making it. (Cliff Newell).
Building a layout part 24, controls part 1, lever frame theory. Text, diagrams. (Mike Sargent, North London Group).
A guide to drawings of railway structures, part 1, South and Western groups. Text and tables. (Peter Kazmierczak).
Layout: Narrow Gauge from Stephens Cross, a scenic 009-gauge layout by Chesham MRC. Text, pictures. (J.R. Main).
Letter, Baldwin 60cm gauge 4-6-0T locomotives. (D. Clayton, Handsworth Wood).
Picture, the sandwich-framed 'Barnum' 2-4-0 of 1889 is a GWR locomotive type which is not available in model form. These powerful locomotives earned their nickname through use on the heavy Barnum & Bailey circus train. B/W.
The first 25 years, Crawley Model Railway Society Silver Jubilee Year. Compiled from reminiscences of the members. Text, pictures.