Welcome
www.instagram.com/modelrailmag www.facebook.com/modelrail www.twitter.com/modelrailuk While perusing the new Heljan ‘O’ gauge Class 31 (see page 96), my mind wandered off to happy childhood memories of the hourly Liverpool to Sheffield/Hull expresses thrashing past the edge of my school’s football field. The ‘31s’ became something of a personal favourite, with a good chunk of the ‘31/4’ sub-class underlined in my 1989 Abe. The ‘31s’ were seen on plenty of freight duties around Warrington too, so a ‘Goyle’ in original Railfreight grey also conjures up a feeling of nostalgia. As my thoughts meandered, I began to wonder where on earth the nickname ‘Goyle’ came from, having never really given it much thought. A quick Google search revealed that it was short for ‘Gargoyle’, which seems a little unfair. I’d call them ‘distinctive’, rather than ugly! What did get…
