Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
ON TRACK - Code of practice for steam charters The Rail Regulator acts on complaints - and how Singapore may have set an interesting precedent
OBSERVATIONS: THE SWINDON LEGACY - It's one hundred-and-fifty years since Daniel Gooch's workshops built their first complete locomotive for the Great Western Railway. Surely an anniversary well worth celebrating
TRAFFIC NOTICES - Somerset and Dorset to be rebuilt - Pacifies star in East Lanes gala - another chance to drive the Duchess - Sir Nigel for the Mid-Hants
RESTORATION UPDATE - Lottery cash for Far East war survivor - Wadebridge at fifty - K&ESR Terriers' progress report -North British giant takes a stride forward
INFORMATION LINES - You ask-our experts answer, with questions on the Wainright P class 0-6-Os, and the named Gresley V2s
THEY MADE HISTORY... FOWLER'S FIRST ELEVEN - Continuing our commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the closure of the Somerset and Dorset route, Richard Derry chronicles the lives of the eleven locomotives most strongly associated with that much-loved line, the Fowler 7F 2-8-0s
REMEMBER WHEN... that Gresley 3-cylinder beat could be heard from Welwyn to Waverley - and Weybridge
WRITE LINES - Why doesn't Josiah Evans get the credit he deserves, more "BB" mottos translated, and where exactly does the Peppercorn A1 project fit into the preservation spectrum, all among your letters this month
FROM THE FOOTPLATE: THE LONGEST DAY - It should have been an easy morning's work, but circumstances conspired to ensure that a cold November day was to become Brian Topping's longest in his railway apprenticeship
THE CLASSIC IMAGE - We mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first appearance of the Ivatt class 2MT Moguls for the LMSR with a portrait of one of the most famous survivors of these hardworking locomotives, the Severn Valley's 'People's Engine', No 46443
A DAY RETURNED: PLYMOUTH HO! - Eric Sawford continues his pilgrimage in search of the elegant and the exotic among West Country steam, this month recalling an era when the only warships to be found at Plymouth were water-borne not rail-borne!
NARROW ANGLE: A STORY WITH A STEAMY ENDING - Peter Clowes tells the story of Southport's Lakeside Miniature Railway, and of how stearn has made a triumphant return there
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: A DRUMMOND IN DETAIL - Henry Graham compiles the data and the detail on Dugald Drummond's M7 class 0-4-4Ts for the London & South Western Railway, engines which gave over sixty years of sterling service
TRAIN FAYRE - Reviews of two new video releases charting the history of The Knotty' - the North Staffordshire Railway -and recalling memories of Southern steam thirty years ago this spring
STEAM ABROAD: COMPOUNDS ON THE PAMPAS - Rodger Bradley recalls some of the most successful steam locomotives to have operated in South America, the British-built compounds of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway of Argentina
THE LOCOMOTIVE IN QUESTION: COME IN NUMBER ONE! - Celebrating a Metropolitan centenary in the company of a number one, the sole survivor of Thomas Clark's E class 0-4-4Ts, and the last locomotive to be built at Neasden Works
WHERE THERE'S STEAM: Your area-by-area, line-by-line guide to steam activity throughout England, Scotland and Wales during the coming weeks
OBSERVATIONS: THE SWINDON LEGACY - It's one hundred-and-fifty years since Daniel Gooch's workshops built their first complete locomotive for the Great Western Railway. Surely an anniversary well worth celebrating
TRAFFIC NOTICES - Somerset and Dorset to be rebuilt - Pacifies star in East Lanes gala - another chance to drive the Duchess - Sir Nigel for the Mid-Hants
RESTORATION UPDATE - Lottery cash for Far East war survivor - Wadebridge at fifty - K&ESR Terriers' progress report -North British giant takes a stride forward
INFORMATION LINES - You ask-our experts answer, with questions on the Wainright P class 0-6-Os, and the named Gresley V2s
THEY MADE HISTORY... FOWLER'S FIRST ELEVEN - Continuing our commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the closure of the Somerset and Dorset route, Richard Derry chronicles the lives of the eleven locomotives most strongly associated with that much-loved line, the Fowler 7F 2-8-0s
REMEMBER WHEN... that Gresley 3-cylinder beat could be heard from Welwyn to Waverley - and Weybridge
WRITE LINES - Why doesn't Josiah Evans get the credit he deserves, more "BB" mottos translated, and where exactly does the Peppercorn A1 project fit into the preservation spectrum, all among your letters this month
FROM THE FOOTPLATE: THE LONGEST DAY - It should have been an easy morning's work, but circumstances conspired to ensure that a cold November day was to become Brian Topping's longest in his railway apprenticeship
THE CLASSIC IMAGE - We mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first appearance of the Ivatt class 2MT Moguls for the LMSR with a portrait of one of the most famous survivors of these hardworking locomotives, the Severn Valley's 'People's Engine', No 46443
A DAY RETURNED: PLYMOUTH HO! - Eric Sawford continues his pilgrimage in search of the elegant and the exotic among West Country steam, this month recalling an era when the only warships to be found at Plymouth were water-borne not rail-borne!
NARROW ANGLE: A STORY WITH A STEAMY ENDING - Peter Clowes tells the story of Southport's Lakeside Miniature Railway, and of how stearn has made a triumphant return there
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: A DRUMMOND IN DETAIL - Henry Graham compiles the data and the detail on Dugald Drummond's M7 class 0-4-4Ts for the London & South Western Railway, engines which gave over sixty years of sterling service
TRAIN FAYRE - Reviews of two new video releases charting the history of The Knotty' - the North Staffordshire Railway -and recalling memories of Southern steam thirty years ago this spring
STEAM ABROAD: COMPOUNDS ON THE PAMPAS - Rodger Bradley recalls some of the most successful steam locomotives to have operated in South America, the British-built compounds of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway of Argentina
THE LOCOMOTIVE IN QUESTION: COME IN NUMBER ONE! - Celebrating a Metropolitan centenary in the company of a number one, the sole survivor of Thomas Clark's E class 0-4-4Ts, and the last locomotive to be built at Neasden Works
WHERE THERE'S STEAM: Your area-by-area, line-by-line guide to steam activity throughout England, Scotland and Wales during the coming weeks
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