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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
FEATURES:
ALL CHANGE ON THE GREAT WESTERN - This spring sees the retirement of two general managers from leading West Country heritage lines, Barry Cogar at Devona€ s Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway and Roger Webster at Cornwalla€ s Bodmin & Wenford Railway. Editor Robin Jones takes a look at both lines, the men who have led them for nearly half a century between them, and the fresh plans of their successors to take them forward to their next key stages of development, with a renewed focus on heritage very much at the forefront.
THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL - The two really significant dates in 1968 in the run-up to the end of BR steam were 5 May and 1 July, which marked the end of steam in Liverpool and Manchester respectively. Brian Sharpe continues the countdown to the end of BR steam, 40 years after the whistles fell silent in one of Britaina€ s best-known cities.
THE LMS a€~STREAKa€ - The re-streamlining of Duchess of Hamilton has been an ambition of the National Railway Museum and enthusiasts for many years, and once completed, is expected to make a fascinating comparison with its 30s a€~rivala€ , the A4 a€~streaka€ Mallard. Following the a€~discoverya€ of a previously unknown photograph of a blue streamlined Duchess in action, the publication of our free Duchess of Sutherland poster in this issue and the appearance of three A4s in steam together to tell the a€~othera€ side of the story, Keith Langston takes the opportunity to review the flagship LMS class which many consider, if only in their de-streamlined form, a defining pinnacle of the steam age.
THE LAST ENGINE CLEANERS ON BRITISH RAILWAYS - When steam was in its prime, all engines were regularly cleaned and each shed employed a large number of cleaners. However, in the final years of BR steam, the run-down machines were never cleaned. Yet those old enough to remember the events of 40 years ago will recall that some passenger and even filthy freight engines suddenly, as if by magic, appeared immaculate with highly polished paintwork just before withdrawal and scrap. But how and why? Photographer Maurice Burns recalls his happy memories of the last few years of BR steam and explains in a two part article the truth of what really happened all those years agoa€Ã
ALL CHANGE ON THE GREAT WESTERN - This spring sees the retirement of two general managers from leading West Country heritage lines, Barry Cogar at Devona€ s Paignton & Dartmouth Steam Railway and Roger Webster at Cornwalla€ s Bodmin & Wenford Railway. Editor Robin Jones takes a look at both lines, the men who have led them for nearly half a century between them, and the fresh plans of their successors to take them forward to their next key stages of development, with a renewed focus on heritage very much at the forefront.
THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL - The two really significant dates in 1968 in the run-up to the end of BR steam were 5 May and 1 July, which marked the end of steam in Liverpool and Manchester respectively. Brian Sharpe continues the countdown to the end of BR steam, 40 years after the whistles fell silent in one of Britaina€ s best-known cities.
THE LMS a€~STREAKa€ - The re-streamlining of Duchess of Hamilton has been an ambition of the National Railway Museum and enthusiasts for many years, and once completed, is expected to make a fascinating comparison with its 30s a€~rivala€ , the A4 a€~streaka€ Mallard. Following the a€~discoverya€ of a previously unknown photograph of a blue streamlined Duchess in action, the publication of our free Duchess of Sutherland poster in this issue and the appearance of three A4s in steam together to tell the a€~othera€ side of the story, Keith Langston takes the opportunity to review the flagship LMS class which many consider, if only in their de-streamlined form, a defining pinnacle of the steam age.
THE LAST ENGINE CLEANERS ON BRITISH RAILWAYS - When steam was in its prime, all engines were regularly cleaned and each shed employed a large number of cleaners. However, in the final years of BR steam, the run-down machines were never cleaned. Yet those old enough to remember the events of 40 years ago will recall that some passenger and even filthy freight engines suddenly, as if by magic, appeared immaculate with highly polished paintwork just before withdrawal and scrap. But how and why? Photographer Maurice Burns recalls his happy memories of the last few years of BR steam and explains in a two part article the truth of what really happened all those years agoa€Ã
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