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  8. Modelling The Natural & Man Made Environment

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  10. Rolling Stock

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  11. Permanent Way

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    4. Track maintenance

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    5. Ballasting

      its a sort of Marmite subject but necessary anyway
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  12. The Prototype

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    3. Wagons & Rolling Stock

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    6. Research & Archival Materials

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  13. Model Railway Control Systems

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      Everything analogue.
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    2. DCC Control

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    5. DCC Sound

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    6. Non Sound Decoders

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    7. Welcome to the DARK side

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    8. Power Houses

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