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LMS Review will be rather different to what has gone before in the world of railway publishing and it is important to ensure the editorial aims and objectives are fully understood. As I have said on previous occasions there are few advantages of getting older, but one is to be able to look back and say, 'I was there and saw how it was done.' Indeed my railway experience does enable me to comment about how railways were operated in the final years and beyond and also given me the basis for research into the
Talking to modellers it becomes clear that what many seek is clear information about how the railways were operated and the purpose of this book is to set out this information. A good example of lack of understanding is locomotive headlamp codes. Authors often describe trains as 'Van trains', 'Mixed goods trains' etc. Their descriptions are based upon what is behind the tender not what code is displayed at the leading end of the locomotive by the use of the headlamps. Some readers may query the use of model
It has been my view for a long time that in the absence of full size historical examples we should use accurate models but when you visit model railway exhibitions you encounter the strong belief that a 'proper model railway' will have something happening all of the time; sadly this is not true. In 1988 the LMS Society produced a Special LMS Edition to celebrate their 25th Anniversary and one of the articles was written by Vic Forster. Entitled 'Steam Days at Tamworth (Low Level)' it describes the trains th