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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Could "Deltic" return - Rail Enthusiast takes the engine covers off the prototype "Deltic" locomotive, which has rested in the London Science Museum for the last 20 years.
Electro-diesels explained - Basil Cooper visits Stewarts Lane Depot to unveil the technicalities of the Southern Region's Class 73 electro-diesels and Mike Turner's colour painting is in the centre.
News and reference section - Eight pages of News Lines, Works Report and All Change appears on a special tinted paper section.
The "Warship" story - Part 2 - Geoffrey Freeman Alien concludes his detailed look at the diesel-hydraulic BB locomotives that once ruled the Western Region rails.
GG1s cling to life - The Pennsylvania Railroad's grand old electrics have been hauling crack expresses for over 45 years - and a handful were still at work when Howard J. Piltz visited the States recently.
Railcars remembered - With painstaking research backed up by photographs from his extensive collection, Dick Riley traces the duties of the Great Western Railway diesel railcars.
Keeping the HSTs flying - Inter-City 125 trains face some gruelling diagrams to meet the demands of a modern high-speed railway - and high standards of maintenance are essential, as Peter Kelly discovered when he visited Bounds Green Depot.
How the "Deities" are doing - Buying a couple of complicated diesel-electric locomotives from British Rail is one thing: keeping them going is another. Members of the "Deltic" Preservation Society tell of the headaches.
Readers' Round-Up - Eight more tinted pages crammed with the latest sightmgs and discoveries of our hundreds of regular correspondents - the readers - nationwide.
From "Rags" to Royalty - When John Hughes signed up as an engine cleaner at the old Great Western Shed at Chester in 1936 he had little idea that he'd end up as the LMR's Chief Locomotive Inspector with regular trips on the Royal Train.
Electro-diesels explained - Basil Cooper visits Stewarts Lane Depot to unveil the technicalities of the Southern Region's Class 73 electro-diesels and Mike Turner's colour painting is in the centre.
News and reference section - Eight pages of News Lines, Works Report and All Change appears on a special tinted paper section.
The "Warship" story - Part 2 - Geoffrey Freeman Alien concludes his detailed look at the diesel-hydraulic BB locomotives that once ruled the Western Region rails.
GG1s cling to life - The Pennsylvania Railroad's grand old electrics have been hauling crack expresses for over 45 years - and a handful were still at work when Howard J. Piltz visited the States recently.
Railcars remembered - With painstaking research backed up by photographs from his extensive collection, Dick Riley traces the duties of the Great Western Railway diesel railcars.
Keeping the HSTs flying - Inter-City 125 trains face some gruelling diagrams to meet the demands of a modern high-speed railway - and high standards of maintenance are essential, as Peter Kelly discovered when he visited Bounds Green Depot.
How the "Deities" are doing - Buying a couple of complicated diesel-electric locomotives from British Rail is one thing: keeping them going is another. Members of the "Deltic" Preservation Society tell of the headaches.
Readers' Round-Up - Eight more tinted pages crammed with the latest sightmgs and discoveries of our hundreds of regular correspondents - the readers - nationwide.
From "Rags" to Royalty - When John Hughes signed up as an engine cleaner at the old Great Western Shed at Chester in 1936 he had little idea that he'd end up as the LMR's Chief Locomotive Inspector with regular trips on the Royal Train.
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