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Not Such an Ugly Duckling - by George Reeve Grimesthorpe Oakley Junction 1938 - by Geoff Goslin View from Above - by Martin Smith STATION SURVEY: Llandudno Junction - by John Hooper On the Drier Side - by W.B.Yeadon A Life in Steam - by A.N. Marshall FOURUM: Weymouth Quay - A Reader Writes Cover Photo: Waterloo on 2nd August 1960; ROYAL MAIL waits to leave with the 5pm for the West WESTMINSTER stands at the adjacent platform on a Basingstoke train.
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Welcome to British Railways Illustrated No.,3 Volume 2. In this issue the LNER's characterisation of the eastern part of England as the dry side, has at long last found a second home. The slogan sounds a trifle naive by modern advertising standards - or maybe not, after all it conveniently ignored the sort of cold wind that can come off the North Sea, even in August, clearing all but those with the most Spartan leanings from any beach. W.B. Yeadon, famed both in these columns and as a principal mover in the RCTS 'Green Guide' to the locomotives of the LNER, has taken the old LNER advertising banner and used it as the connecting thread in what will doubtless prove a more or less definitive rendering of the named trains of both LNER and Eastern Region days. On The Dry Side begins with 'The Flying Scotsman' - together with a general background to such expresses it could not be a better start. BRILL has already pictured an aircraft in its youthful pages and Thirties File this time around again provides for something other than strictly railways - the ferries and quay at Weymouth, one I'll of the archetypal railway passenger ports. Station Survey this issue takes us to the North Wales coast, an ever popular venue. There are so many long-vanished institutions on our railways - this point is made not for the first time, and almost certainly not for the last - that these pages are in essence a procession of vanished institutions. One such long-gone phenomenon is the railway holiday, the family bundled off by train to stumble out blinking into the light amidst cases, prams and quite possibly the dog. Every Saturday through the 1950s such scenes were enacted along the North Wales coast and though the phrase 'summer Saturdays in the west' has come to absolutely represent the pell mell and organised chaos of peak summer holiday travel, Rhyl, Colwyn Bay, Llandudno and the rest could not have been far behind the pressures and crush of Devon and Cornwall. John Hooper surveys Llandudno Junction, its life and times and its days as traffic centre in its own right. We have another locomotive feature this month, George Reeve putting together a workman-like account of a very workmanlike design. The Southern was something of a law unto itself, well into BR days and beyond steam even. This individual (quirky, even) quality, had antecedents going back long before Bulleid, perhaps the quirkiest of the lot, and there were a number of Southern classes noted for an out of the ordinary look. The Z 0-8-OTs, the Ugly Ducklings, certainly had that; lumbering and ponderous maybe, but to many their powerful build was leavened by a lightness of touch in the design. The simple fact of their wheel arrangement made them highly unusual in British practice (for a tank that is) and there was moreover more than a hint of the Continent about them. Lovely pictures and a story straight from the record cards. Geoff Goslin sits in for Geoffrey Symms to recount the Oakley Junction accident of 1938 and Martin Smith, who has kindly provided the notes on Weymouth Quay, provides us with a local's eye view of Temple Meads, a captivating footnote to his Station Survey of BRILL 1.5. Leslie Sandler's material and notes provide for a pleasantly rural ride in Fourum. GWR 2-6-2Ts in deepest England, as sharp a contrast as might be found anywhere, to our brief look at LMS shed policy, at Grimesthorpe. in Sheffield. Readers now phone and fax the magazine as well as writing in ever increasing numbers and it is a pleasure to see how everyone seems to have particular favourites. Apologies then. to the vociferous adherents of Diesel Dawn; its absence is not a reflection of policy, merely the crumbling of the cookie, and the feature will be back (in force) next time.
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