��� Daniel McIntyre has reprinted the details from Sergio Romano published in the previous issue, as Sergio has now sent Daniel some more photos of this Brizilian line. One of these has been published here.
��� Sergio says that he is involved with a Brazilian Group called ABPF, (Brazilian Railway Preservation Society) that run a preserved railroad in Campinas, near S�o Paulo, in Brazil. The railway society owns and operates Baldwin 4-6-0 metre gauge steam locomotives.
��� The line is about 25 km in length, along the old main line of Companhia Mogiana between the cities of Campinas (Anhumas Station) and Jaguariuna.
��� Many thanks to Javier Fern�ndez L�pez, of the Museo del Ferrocarril de Asturias at Gij�n, in Spain. He has produced a web page entitled �Locomotoras de vapor preservadas de Espa�a� (Preserved steam locomotives of Spain) which can be found at http://perso.wanadoo.es/rieramon He asked if he could use Daniel McIntyre�s photograph of Henschel 0-4-0T 16047 ex Utrillas from his pages about South Tynedale Railway. Daniel was only too pleased to help him and has sent him a copy of it.
��� Javier later replied �Thank you very much for your help!. Your photo will be very useful to me. Thanks again. Of course, I am very pleased to place a link in my page to yours about the South Tynedale Railway.�
Javier has provided a couple of photos of narrow gauge locomotives, reproduced here which are preserved in the Asturias Railway Museum in Gij�n (in the north of Spain) where he works. Both are in working order, and they work all Saturdays as a little museum train. The museum is now repairing to working order another loco, an 0-4-0WT 600 mm gauge Maffei of 1920. All these locomotives have new boilers of steel, because in Gij�n there is a boiler works that builds new boilers at reasonable prices. The old boilers cannot be used because the industrial rules and laws of the local government forbids this.
Javier also provided me with a list of all preserved locomotives of the same type of �Thomas Edmondson� a Henschel 0-4-0T, based at the South Tynedale Railway at Alston, Cumbria, he says that some were regauged from 600 mm gauge to 650 mm and to metre gauge.
Jacques Daffis informs all readers that there is more than one narrow gauge line in France. He recommends the general list in a French Railway federation web site: http://www.trains-fr.org where details of all tourist lines in France, standard, metric or narrow gauge (some pages in english) can be found. Jacques is involved with the Tarn Tourist Railway, in south west France. It is 50 cm gauge line, with steam and diesel locomotives, he is also a member of the IRS (Industrial Railway Society) and the NGRS (Narrow Gauge Railway Society).
The Chemin de Fer Touristique du Tarn Railway web site, is quite young (founded in May 2000) is only available in French language at present and can be located at the following address: http://www.cftt.org
Daniel adds that information about the history of narrow gauge railways of France is covered in the latest book from Plateway Press, entitled �Minor Railways of France� by W.J.K. Davies its contains a general overview of minor public railways in France in 336 pages including a 32 page colour photograph section, for �29.95 plus postage and packing. Further details from Plateway Press, Taverner House, Harling Road, East Harling, Norfolk, England, NR16 2QR.
Peter Bowyer sent some information about himself and some details of his websites which are reproduced below:-
�I am Peter Bowyer and I live in the UK. I�ve been a model railway enthusiast all my life, and a narrow gauge convert for the past 7 years. So far I�ve built 2 layouts, one of which can be seen at Peter's Web Page - http://members.aol.com/reywob/ I took this layout to Peco some weeks ago to be photographed for the Railway Modeller magazine, so am now struggling to write the article to go with it!�
Peter also runs another site, Narrow Gauge on the web - http://www.narrowgauge.f2s.com/ which has a postcard generator (mostly full of South African Trains!), a message board (very under used, so please use it) and a directory of all the narrow gauge railways in the UK.
Daniel McIntyre would like to recommend the work of the Narrow Gauge Railway Society, of which he is a member, as a good reference point for obtaining information about narrow gauge and miniature railways in the U.K. and worldwide. The N.G.R.S. publishes a bi-monthly news journal called �Narrow Gauge News� and a quarterly magazine called �The Narrow Gauge�. It also has a web site at http://www.ngrs.demon.co.uk and membership is recommended for all enthusiasts of the narrow gauge railways.
An appeal for people to look at some humourous pages relating to an "Always Wimsical but Not Usually To Scale" side of a light hearted fun view of railways, has been received from Susan Robinson, the Associate Editor of A.W.N.U.T.S. magazine. She says that she would appreciate it if links to those pages could be included, which are located at the following addresses:-
http://www.grandscales.com
or at: http://www.awnuts.com
An appeal has been received from Javier Fern�ndez of Gij�n, Spain, who would like readers to help his Argentine friends (old railmen) to preserve Argentinian 750 mm gauge steam locomotives. Please, visit the page http://www.trendelsur.8m.com. A little E-mail message to [email protected] with your opinions and views about the interest in restoring one of these locomotives to working order may prove to be very useful.
Daniel McIntyre would be interested to receive photos and small articles about narrow gauge railways, narrow gauge model locomotives and layouts. He would be greatful if anyone could E-mail any photos and text about narrow gauge railways or railway modelling for publication in the next issue, which he hopes to publish in March 2001 as a Spring 2001 issue, please E-mail them to the address below.