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Modeller ’s Bookshelf

With the Model Rail Scotland show on the horizon, we present a quar tet of books with a Scot tish flavour.

SCOTCH ‘GRONKS’

Anyone with an interest in modelling Scottish Class 08s from the late 1970s to the early 2000s should consider this photo album. Plenty of prototype information and nearly 200 previously unpublished images are provided, showcasing these workaday shunters performing on a vast range of duties around the Scottish Region. Invaluable for identifying detail differences, the images also feature plenty of other useful information, in terms of rolling stock and lineside detail.

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