The models that made the steam age
Sep 24, 2019
2 minutes
By Robin Jones
NRM
NRM
NRM
THE term ‘model railways’immediately conjures up visions of the beautiful scale miniatures produced for the mass market by the likes of Hornby and Bachmann.
Yet in so many cases in the history of early steam railways, it was pioneer steam engineers who made small but mechanically accurate models of new locomotives to test their designs before constructing full-size versions, if only
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