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Railways Illustrated August 2010

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FEATURES

Four-ever popular

years of the Class 37/4s

30 Heyday of the Hydraulics

Win copies of the new book

A Scottish exile in Wales

The life and times of 26038

Demise of a depot

The derelict remains of Healey Mills

Getting to the hub of the matter

The current make up of freight hubs

The birth of the diesel shunter

How the LMS experimented with diesels

The ‘Great’ survivors

The operational surviving GWR locos

Matlock madness

Class 20s to Matlock in 1990

Loco makeovers

How the front ends of locos have changed

THE BIG NEWS THIS MONTH

15 New-look Freightliner 86/6
DRS tests 37s on intermodal trains
Class 37s return to the West Highlands
Fastline 56s for sale
DMU derails heading to Oban
Loco-hauled return to Penzance