Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
News:
Standard Lines - Latest news from the standard gauge heritage railways
Narrow Lines - All the news from the less than 4ft 81/iin gauge...but 15in-plus., railways
Classic Traction - John Crane reports on developments in the preservation of diesel and electric traction
Small World - Robin Buttered reports on railways with a I Sin or smaller track gauge
On Main Lines - Looking at excursions on the national network - Rail Excursion Roster lists the wide range of main line excursions with diesel and electric traction, Steam mainliners details main line steam trips.
NRM Spotlight - Philip Atkins reviews the life and work of the North Eastern Railway dynamometer car which dates back to 1905
National Network - Our update on the national system: Privatised Railway provides the comment behind the news, and Brian Morrison reports in news and pictures
European Steam Scene - Colin Boocock reports on a forgotten Beyer Garratt in Spain; the Danish railway museum in Odense;a tourist railway in Hungary: locomotive news, and details of summer'97 steam runs throughout Europe including the Swiss ISO events
COMMENT:
RW Comment - Steaming ahead? What prospects for main line steam amid changes in the charter market?
lan Allan Writes - Reporting on piers; musings on railway services of the past as compared with the privatised system, and thoughts on the demise of BR's corporate advertising
Letters - Where you, the readers have your say
Young Isambard - Railway World's wry observer of the world of railways
FEATURES:
Gatwick Express Today - Tony Sullivan profiles one of the new train operators. Gatwick Express, which entered the private sector on 28 April last year
Reviewing the years on the Mid-Hants - Michael Harris talks to Margaret Parker about the Mid-Hants' plans, not only for summer'97 but beyond - 20 years after passenger-carrying services recommenced between Alresford and Ropley
Passenger trains return between Exeter and Okehampton - Richard Easterbrook explains what has been involved in making possible the ^introduction of regular passenger train services on a well-loved former LSWR main line
Take Four - features the work of Andrew Bell
DMU - 40 not out! - A short tribute to the Heritage DMUs still in service with theTOCs - words by Roger Wood, photographs by Brian Morrison
Preservation Hero - Dr Peter Beet 3. 'We had won their hearts' - In the last of his three articles. Dr Peter Beet describes the way in which the Carnforth venture developed, and how BR's attitude changed for the better towards preservation
The Teifi Valley poised for great things? - Cliff Thomas visits the 2ft gauge Teifi Valley Railway, and finds things are stirring in the woods of mid-Wales
Industrial Scene - with Bob Darvill who considers surviving engines from pre-Grouping railways and how they came to be preserved after a second career in industry
And....From Page 72 onwards presenting Marshalling Yard - Railway World's review of what is on offer to readers including book and video reviews, products, our diary of events - and not forgetting Bill Ansell's cartoon
Standard Lines - Latest news from the standard gauge heritage railways
Narrow Lines - All the news from the less than 4ft 81/iin gauge...but 15in-plus., railways
Classic Traction - John Crane reports on developments in the preservation of diesel and electric traction
Small World - Robin Buttered reports on railways with a I Sin or smaller track gauge
On Main Lines - Looking at excursions on the national network - Rail Excursion Roster lists the wide range of main line excursions with diesel and electric traction, Steam mainliners details main line steam trips.
NRM Spotlight - Philip Atkins reviews the life and work of the North Eastern Railway dynamometer car which dates back to 1905
National Network - Our update on the national system: Privatised Railway provides the comment behind the news, and Brian Morrison reports in news and pictures
European Steam Scene - Colin Boocock reports on a forgotten Beyer Garratt in Spain; the Danish railway museum in Odense;a tourist railway in Hungary: locomotive news, and details of summer'97 steam runs throughout Europe including the Swiss ISO events
COMMENT:
RW Comment - Steaming ahead? What prospects for main line steam amid changes in the charter market?
lan Allan Writes - Reporting on piers; musings on railway services of the past as compared with the privatised system, and thoughts on the demise of BR's corporate advertising
Letters - Where you, the readers have your say
Young Isambard - Railway World's wry observer of the world of railways
FEATURES:
Gatwick Express Today - Tony Sullivan profiles one of the new train operators. Gatwick Express, which entered the private sector on 28 April last year
Reviewing the years on the Mid-Hants - Michael Harris talks to Margaret Parker about the Mid-Hants' plans, not only for summer'97 but beyond - 20 years after passenger-carrying services recommenced between Alresford and Ropley
Passenger trains return between Exeter and Okehampton - Richard Easterbrook explains what has been involved in making possible the ^introduction of regular passenger train services on a well-loved former LSWR main line
Take Four - features the work of Andrew Bell
DMU - 40 not out! - A short tribute to the Heritage DMUs still in service with theTOCs - words by Roger Wood, photographs by Brian Morrison
Preservation Hero - Dr Peter Beet 3. 'We had won their hearts' - In the last of his three articles. Dr Peter Beet describes the way in which the Carnforth venture developed, and how BR's attitude changed for the better towards preservation
The Teifi Valley poised for great things? - Cliff Thomas visits the 2ft gauge Teifi Valley Railway, and finds things are stirring in the woods of mid-Wales
Industrial Scene - with Bob Darvill who considers surviving engines from pre-Grouping railways and how they came to be preserved after a second career in industry
And....From Page 72 onwards presenting Marshalling Yard - Railway World's review of what is on offer to readers including book and video reviews, products, our diary of events - and not forgetting Bill Ansell's cartoon
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