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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Features:
SECONDHAND ROSE, FIRST CLASS! - While volunteer-led railway preservation is a postwar phenomenon, heritage traction has been the order of the day on the Isle of Wight for more than a century! Robin Jones looks at the island's railway history both before and after the preservation era, and asks if there is a case for rebuilding further lengths of its long-lost network to serve a discerning tourist market while addressing public transport needs.
WAS CRESLEY INDEBTED TO ANCIENT GREECE? - Did the Railway Age begin with the Industrial Revolution - or did it start in ancient Greece? Robin Jones discusses the newly-published research of Dr. Michael J. T Lewis.
NEW GENERATION LINES: LOCHTY MOVES TO LEVEN; Fife's new Kingdom cometh As LNER A4 Pacific No. 60009 Union of South Africa prepares to return to the main line, a new railway heritage centre is set to emerge from the legacy of its former Lochty Private Railway home. Robin Jones looks at the aspirations of the Kingdom of Fife Railway Preservation Society at Leven.
DIESELISATION: PRESERVATION'S DRIVING FORCE, PART 1 - Dieselisation of the national network became the single most-important catalyst for the early preservationists to save steam from the cutter's torch. Yet the main line diesels which drove steam out themselves became prime targets for saving for posterity. In the first part of a special two-part feature, Fred Kerr presents a concise history of Britain's main line diesels and their increasingly-important place in the heritage railway sector today.
TAKING THE BLACK 20 OVER THE 'ALPS'- WITH A HINT OF STEAM - Steam aficionado Cedric Johns takes to the footplate of a main line-destined preserved Class 20 - and then cabs a 9F to savour the difference!
WORTH TAKING A DEEPER VIEW! - Local resident John Tickner, otherwise a modern traction and foreign steam photographer, presents a different view of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway from the vantage points that the others overlook, and explains why the line is his favourite.
BALDOCK'S WOODLAND WONDERLRAND! - Close by the Hampshire/Sussex border, heritage steam is the driving force behind a superb tribute to the golden age of British engineering on a green field site. Brian Gooding reviews the Hollycombe Steam Collection.
Regulars:
HEADLINE NEWS - London and Edinburgh join race to land Flying Scotsman Village theme park; Kirklees Light Railway for sale at Ã
SECONDHAND ROSE, FIRST CLASS! - While volunteer-led railway preservation is a postwar phenomenon, heritage traction has been the order of the day on the Isle of Wight for more than a century! Robin Jones looks at the island's railway history both before and after the preservation era, and asks if there is a case for rebuilding further lengths of its long-lost network to serve a discerning tourist market while addressing public transport needs.
WAS CRESLEY INDEBTED TO ANCIENT GREECE? - Did the Railway Age begin with the Industrial Revolution - or did it start in ancient Greece? Robin Jones discusses the newly-published research of Dr. Michael J. T Lewis.
NEW GENERATION LINES: LOCHTY MOVES TO LEVEN; Fife's new Kingdom cometh As LNER A4 Pacific No. 60009 Union of South Africa prepares to return to the main line, a new railway heritage centre is set to emerge from the legacy of its former Lochty Private Railway home. Robin Jones looks at the aspirations of the Kingdom of Fife Railway Preservation Society at Leven.
DIESELISATION: PRESERVATION'S DRIVING FORCE, PART 1 - Dieselisation of the national network became the single most-important catalyst for the early preservationists to save steam from the cutter's torch. Yet the main line diesels which drove steam out themselves became prime targets for saving for posterity. In the first part of a special two-part feature, Fred Kerr presents a concise history of Britain's main line diesels and their increasingly-important place in the heritage railway sector today.
TAKING THE BLACK 20 OVER THE 'ALPS'- WITH A HINT OF STEAM - Steam aficionado Cedric Johns takes to the footplate of a main line-destined preserved Class 20 - and then cabs a 9F to savour the difference!
WORTH TAKING A DEEPER VIEW! - Local resident John Tickner, otherwise a modern traction and foreign steam photographer, presents a different view of the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway from the vantage points that the others overlook, and explains why the line is his favourite.
BALDOCK'S WOODLAND WONDERLRAND! - Close by the Hampshire/Sussex border, heritage steam is the driving force behind a superb tribute to the golden age of British engineering on a green field site. Brian Gooding reviews the Hollycombe Steam Collection.
Regulars:
HEADLINE NEWS - London and Edinburgh join race to land Flying Scotsman Village theme park; Kirklees Light Railway for sale at Ã
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