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Auckland omnishambles

Opinion – Today, Auckland Transport and KiwiRail have announced the Rail Network Rebuild. Auckland’s entire railway network will be closed in stages and rebuilt

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It’s Show Time

When we put BWS away in February 2020, after the Tonbridge show, I wasn’t quite expecting it to be October 2022 before we exhibited again…..! Still, here we are, and next weekend, the 8th and 9th October, we are out on the road once more, at Hornby Magazine’s Great Electric Train Show in Milton Keynes. …

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Electric cars won’t save us

At the end of this year’s Burning Man, nearly 80,000 people staggered out of a carefully constructed utopia into the harsh reality of modern American life. They

Edmondson Street Bridge

 Edmondson Street Road bridge – photo diaryOne of the bridges that has to be replaced prior to double stacking by Inland rail project, is the Edmondson Street bridge.In 1995, a Fearnes Wagga bus crosses the bridge.  This is the view looking w…

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Ahhh, overnight trains

Imagine being in Vienna last week, with all the travel writers and railway buffs invited there to see a new generation of night trains for Europe. You bet I wou