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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue

'GET THEM AWAY FROM THE WEST' - By Andy Farquarson
Fourum
GARRATTS ON THE GO - By Kevin Pile 
ALLOA - Away from the Limelight - By Malcolm Castledine
WAR REPORT 
Loch Katrine Water - By D.W. Winkworth
Diesel Dawn
Westerleigh Yards 
WORTLEY JUNCTION - By Peter Rose
A Reader Writes
INDEX VOLUME 5
A Life of Steam - By H.N. Marshall 

Front cover: D1 4-4-0 No. 31743 passing Beckenham Junction with the Sundays only Heme Hill to Ramsgate train. August 1958. 

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Welcome to British Railways Illustrated Volume 5 Nol2. Compared to brill's gentlemanly A Reader Writes, correspondents in some sections of the railway press fifty years ago were quick to resort to insult and invective and the introduction of the Britannias raised many a hackle. Andy Farquarson (described by one envious but now-forgotten pundit as 'ubiquitous') has been trawling the archives to give a flavour of it all, in 'Take Them Away From the West'. Be prepared for strong stuff. Great Western atavism and downright slanging; this is an example of the (slightly confused) imagery: 'When it comes to construction, they cannot stand in the same street with the old GWR locos which, in my opinion, would wear out six of them and give them a run for their money at that. Take them (the Britannias) away from the West, and those who like them are welcome to them for keeps.'

There is a North Britain flavour to BRILL this month, appropriate enough at a time when the editorial address moves closer to the geographical centre of the country. Wortley Junction by Peter Rose recalls one of the steam hallows ofpost-War times, a place which drew photographers from all across the north, and beyond. Bishop Treacy made it his own, almost as much as the sandstone warrens of Liverpool and it is one of those sites which even those who never visited it, recognise immediately. Wortley Junction rests secure in the collective memory as one of 'The Greats'. Peter Rose began as a booking lad at Wortley Junction, at a time when you started work locally; bombed out by the Luftwaffe (a railway coping stone coming through the roof) he moved from No 17 Binks Street to No 5, from where he could actually see the trains from his bedroom window. Childhood ain't what it used to be....

Away from the Limelight describes Alloa in 1966, a time which many, including the author, rightly remember as an Indian summer. Many enthusiast eyes at the time were focused on the exploits of the remaining Pacifies on the 3 hour Glasgow - Aberdeen trains; Malcolm Castledine's were too, but they also strayed to The Railway Observer, to a few lines in the Scottish notes. Alloa to Kincardine Power Station coal trains, it turned out, were still steam hauled, 'mainly by J38s and WDs from Thomton Junction and Dunfermline sheds.' The hunt was up.

The new Irwell Press Annual No.5, coming out about now, features an article entitled Success Abroad, Failure at Home - an oft-told story, that of the LMS Garratts. Some of the most stirring shots were held back to show these phenomenal engines, well, On the Go. That they found little favour in their homeland and that despite all the success abroad, they were a failure at home. is well known. Kevin Pile manages to say one or two new things about a famous class (no mean achievement in itself) and as he says, the few photographs presented in Garratts on the Go recall something at least of the majesty and brute power of these mighty things.

War Report and Diesel Dawn continue the northern theme, with water from Loch Katrine and a new diesel depot at Darlington; Fourum, at Cannon Street, brings the focus way down south again and there are three 'Heiron's Angle' photos which render geography irrelevant. (Actually 'somewhere near Chipping Sodbury'.)

This is the end of the fifth volume of British Railways Illustrated. It's an achievement to have come so far, courtesy of all our readers, but it is sobering in the sense of time moving on. The steam railway which we celebrate has receded yet another year into the murk of history and we are now in a time when MPD (according to some psycho-person on the radio) stands for Multiple Personality Disorder. We all know different of course, though he might just have something there...
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