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    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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