BIDEFORD'S HISTORY BENEATH THE BREAKERS - Two locomotives from the Bideford, Westward Ho! & Appledore Railway were loaded aboard a steamer in spring 1917 to be taken for active service on the Western Front in Flanders. The ship carrying them was torpedoed by a German U-boat- ironically, within sight of the same coastline that they had served for 16 years and the engines disappeared from official records together with the ship. However, a team of divers claim to have found the wreck with the locomotives still on the deck 84 years later. Robin Jones hits the Atlantic surf trail to find out more. PLATFORM EXTRA: BR STANDARDS - SUCCESS STORY OR SECOND BEST? David Jenkinson's article, 50 Years of BR Standards; a retrospective view, appeared in Heritage Railway issue 28, in which he argued that most of them were unnecessary and a waste of money. Haifa century after the first Standard, No. 70000 Britannia, rolled off the production line, David, former Head of Education and Research at the National Railway Museum in York, has provoked a furious debate among readers Here We Publish a selection of the most o. hornet's nest he has stirred. YOUNGER VIEW: TAKE THE NORROWER VIEW Railway - preservation was once, like football, sacrosanct as a male bastion. But 18-years-old Aston University student Gareth Evans looks at the growing female sector on the Welsh narrow gauge. FINAL PUSH TO PARKEND - While outlining his latest Sentimental Journey charter with GWR Collett 0-6-0 No. 3205, Geoff Silcock reminisces about his first incursion on to the Dean Forest Railway many years ago, where the intrepid photographic pioneers cleared a path for Midland Railway 'half-cab' 0-6-OT No. 41708 with machetes and bow-saws... OFF THE SHELF CHRISTMAS SPECIAL PART ONE - Five-page special section of reviews of quality not novelty merchandise which you will want to give - or receive - at Christmas. Find out about the latest books, videos, calendars and railway seasonal greetings cards when they're first out, not when they're sold out! CARRIAGE & WAGON DEPARTMENT: THE TIMBER TREASURES OF QUAINTON - The Buckinghamshire Railway Centre not only boast of the country's biggest collection of locomotives but a magnificent assortment of preGrouping wooden-bodied coaching stock. However, while several of them have been restored to pristine condition, there are others waiting for the next generation of volunteers to take over, as Christopher Awdry discovered.