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Measuring the Speed and Acceleration of a Loco

This article is an amalgamation (and re-edit) of two articles which I wrote for the MERG newsletter (August 05 & November 05?). I've made an excel file which does the maths and displays the intermediate values, download it (13.5 KB).

UK Signalling, An Overview

For some insane reason over on the Model Rail Cast forums I offered to create a piece on UK signalling after someone offered the same for US. So here goes my attempt at covering the basics of UK signalling from early days to the current day. This is far from complete (see sources below for more information) and may contain errors (see comments below to see if any have been found).