Steam Classic Magazine, June 1992 Issue

CLASSIC COMMENT - The West Somerset takes the press for a ride!
OBSERVATIONS - The roof is on and the wraps are off- a first look at the refurbished National Railway Museum
NEWS - Taunton 150 programme - Cheddleton's 4F for the East Lanes - Glen Douglas update ~ Singapore's fling
WORKING THE "CAMBRIAN LIMITED" - Behind the scenes with Hinton Manor and No75069 on last year's steam over Talerddig
STEAM ON THE MAIN LINE - Full summer locomotive roster
SPOTLIGHT ON SOUTH-EAST STEAM - Introducing the preserved railways of Sussex, Hampshire, Kent and Dorset, and their locomotives
STEAM PORTFOLIO: THE RUGGED TYPE - Profile of the ubiquitous and still useful Hunslet 'Austerity' six-coupled saddletank
REMEMBER WHEN......the clank of a loose-coupled goods was a familiar sound everywhere?
RESTORATION UPDATE - Churchward for sale - September steaming for No4160? - Leighton Buzzard newcomer
THEY MADE HISTORY: GRESLEY'S GRAND DESIGNS - In the second of his articles on Gresley's bold experiments, Aian Vessey evaluates the 'Cocks of the North', the futuristic P2 Mikados, with the aid of another of Harry dark's extraordinary drawings
THE GREAT DESIGNERS: GOOCH AND THE GREAT WESTERN - Martin Smith concludes his appraisal of this first of the Great Western's locomotive engineers
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: THE END OF A LINE - The GWR had little need for 0-6-0 goods engines, yet somehow managed to be producing this quintessential British
locomotive type long after others had abandoned the 0-6-0 for, in the nuin, Swindon ideas. We profile Collett's 2251 class
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your guide to steam activity in England, Scodand, Wales and the Isle of Man up to the end ofJune

FRONT COVER - Thirty years ago, a journey on the embryo Bluebell Railway would have probably been behind one of its branch tanks, a Stroudley 'Terrier' or Wainwright SECR design. Today, it still boasts a fascinating collection of veteran ex-Southern tanks but has grown to become the home of six-coupled express power and even ten-coupled heavy freight muscle in the shape of BR standard 9F 2-10-0 No.92240, seen here passing under Three Arch Bridge on the approach to Horsted Keynes with a train from Sheffield Park on Mdy 12 last year. The Bluebell - whose East Grinstead extension has now reached Sharpthorne tunnel - is one of the preserved railways covered in our south-east steam survey this month