BACKS A'GIN THE WALL - Further Considerations - By Patrick Spens PAGE 364

CARRIAGE AND WAGON WORK AT YORK - More of the dark recesses of the railway world, to be found only in the pages of British Railways Illustrated.

UNZIPP A BANANA - Peter Kay - Exotic fruit liven up a dull north London suburban day.

ALIGHT FOR RISLEY DEPOT - Notes on Newchurch Halt, by Bryan Wilson

A MOMENT ON THE BANK - The stuff of everyday on the bank south from Honeyboume in a glorious June 1963 - a 2-8-0 heaving a freight, assisted by an 0-6-0 in the rear.

SOUTHERN VARIETY - A Norf Londoner's lament. Variety was (is) the spice of life and the miracle of the steam railway was the sheer spectacular variety of the variety. Every city held complete contrasts that derived from pre-Grouping days and before. Nowhere were such differences so wide and so concentrated as in London, yet even so, a cultural barrier remained - the River...

NOT WHAT IT SEEMS...

ON TOUR

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NEWCASTLE INTERLUDE

THIRTIES FILE - CHERRY ORCHARD SIDING 1938 - Some Notes by Michael Nicholson

FOURUM - Sunny Interludes At Mansfield - Photographs and notes by Jack Cupit, captions by Paul Andersen

WAR REPORT - WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE KIDDING, MR HITLER? - By Horace Gamble - Summer 1940 and Britain stands alone. Step forward Horace Gamble to do his bit - not yet eligible for call-up to the regular forces, this son of Leicester decided to sign up for service with the newly-formed LDV. To his incalculable delight. Private Gamble was assigned to the old Great Northern Railway station in Belgrave Road, Leicester. Exciting times were to come; on Palm Sunday 29 March, a cryptic entry in his diary records: 'Home Guard parade 1030 hours. We attack LNER shed and capture it'. It was certainly a unique shed bash.

DIESEL DAWN - New Steeds for Old

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