Steam Classic Magazine, December 1992 Issue

CLASSIC COMMENT - Soaking up that steam shed atmosphere - but for how much longer, as the ‘jobsworths’ stick in their bureaucratic oar?
OBSERVATIONS - Welcome additions is the subject of this month’s news pictorial as we celebrate the return to steam this summer of a host of restorations and overhauls - and with the prospect of even more to come!
NEWS - LNER Pacifics to double-head on the Great Central - East Lancs, goes Great Western - Boscastle passes steam test - 78022 enters traffic on the Worth Valley - replicas damaged in Bowes Railway incidents
STEAM ON THE MAIN LINE - More nocturnal steam out of Waterloo, this time with Taw Valley and Sir Lamiel! Route change for Tyseley’s shuttles; more steam to Sudbury
STOCK CHECK: THE KENT AND EAST SUSSEX RAILWAY - Often dismissed as all ‘Austerities’ and mark ones, this railway through rural England offers far more variety in motive power and rolling stock than is generally imagined, from Brighton centenarians and American switchers to Arctic expatriates
STEAM PORTFOLIO: “SCOTSMAN” AT SEVENTY - Martin Smith celebrates the seventieth anniversary of the introduction of the Gresley Pacifies on the Great Northern Railway with a two-part history of the design, performance and lives of the A1/A3 4-6-2s, locomotives as thoroughbred as the famous names they carried
SPOTLIGHT ON WEST MIDLANDS STEAM - From the fascination of ancient colliery lines and tramways, to the atmosphere ofTyseley, the enterprise of the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, and the largest stock of main-line standard gauge steam to be found anywhere in Britain - the Severn Valley Railway, needles to say - the one-time Black Country has plenty to satiate the steam appetite!
COAL, CONSETT AND THE CARLISLE GOODS (part 2) - Harry Friend concludes his two-part tale of footplate life in the north-east, and of working with the Peppercorn KI, this month tackling the climb to Consett with a 1,000 tons of steel and the sturdy 62027
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: GOODS-LOOKING - Nothing typifies the British steam scene of yesteryear than the six-coupled goods engine. Almost every railway had at least one class of 0-6-0s and they came to number thousands. The Lancashire and Yorkshire was no exception, and the Class 27 of John Aspinall was one of the very best of its type, at one time numbering 484 engines. We chronicle the development of the design, and look in detail at the preserved Nol300. Goods engine it may have been, but that didn’t stop Aspinall making his six-coupled stalwart good-looking, too
WHERE THERE’S STEAM - Your area-by-area, line-by-line guide to steam activity in England, Scotland and Wales for the coming weeks, this month including full details of those Santa specials trains and mince pie specials. You won’t have to go far for a winter warmer!

THIS MONTH'S COVER - Just one of the 'welcome additions' to have entered service on preserved railways these past few months has been the Swanage Railway's No30075, a locomotive of truly 'multi-national' status. It was brought to the UK after service with Yugoslavian Railways, modified to match an American design, then numbered and liveried in the style of our own Southern Railway (and Region). This newcomer to the ranks of the USA class tanks should prove a useful addition to the Swanage fleet (doubtless the habit of the USAs of running hot boxes has been dealt with!) and No30075 makes a fine sight here heading away under the road bridge north of Swanage Station with a train for Harman's Cross on September 19.