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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
CLASSIC COMMENT - Reporting on Blue Peter, from among the polymers and the polypropylenes
WRITE LINES - Recalling the last days of the Bulleids, among two pages of your letters this month
OBSERVATIONS - Steam comes to Smallbrook; Pacifies making news; a slant on saddletanks - and that glorious Great Western
NEWS - It's gala month - on the Kent & East Sussex, the Middleton, the Talyllyn and at Didcot Railway Centre and the East Anglian Railway Museum. Meanwhile the Great Central puts Leicester North on the map and Peak Rail brings steam to Darley Dale
WHAT MAKES STEAM WORK No 1: BOXES, BAFFLES AND BRICK ARCHES - From firebox to flailing rods, the how-it-works series you wanted from us, written in user-friendly style!
THE GREAT DESIGNERS - SCOTTISH SURVEY - A JOLLY GOOD REID - In the first of four studies of great Scottish locomotive designs, Martin Smith considers the Reid Atlantics
THEY MADE HISTORY: THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF CORNWALL - The story of a L&NWR survivor, product of the dawn of the railway age
STEAM PORTFOLIO: A TICKET TO RYDE - To commemorate the Isle of Wight Steam Railway's extension, a celebration of Steam across the Solent
PRAIRIE STORIES - Second of our appraisals of the Churchward/Collett Prairie tanks
REMEMBER WHEN ... - Recalling the BR Standard classes, forty years on
RESTORATION UPDATE - Taking a look around Tyseley, news of Sir Niyl and Blue Peter, and why they're talking about a new "Planet" in Manchester
WATCHING BRIEF - We've been looking at new video releases
STEAM ON THE MAIN LINE - No5407 makes a Scottish substitution, winter steam from Paddington, and the low-down on steam in the fens
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: SWINDON'S "HALLS" - Take a closer look at a Collett/Hawksworth masterpiece
A BOOK FOR THE JOURNEY - Locomotives of the Southern, and of William Arthur Stanier on this month's reading list
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your guide to steam services around Britain until the end of October
FRONT COVER - The firebox, ashpon, injectors and associated gleaming copper pipework of Standard Class 8 Pacific No71000 Duke of Gloucester provide a suitable Image to accompany the first of our series on the workings of the steam locomotive, which deals with the role of the firebox and the importance of draughting to proper combustion. All, of course, to supply steam to turn the wheels. And that needs the kind of valve gear illustrated opposite, the well-greased Walschaerts gear of a Stonier 8F. Prominent are the combination lever, crosshead, slide bars, anchor link, valve spindle, valve spindle guide ... don't worry - all will be explained as our series progresses.
WRITE LINES - Recalling the last days of the Bulleids, among two pages of your letters this month
OBSERVATIONS - Steam comes to Smallbrook; Pacifies making news; a slant on saddletanks - and that glorious Great Western
NEWS - It's gala month - on the Kent & East Sussex, the Middleton, the Talyllyn and at Didcot Railway Centre and the East Anglian Railway Museum. Meanwhile the Great Central puts Leicester North on the map and Peak Rail brings steam to Darley Dale
WHAT MAKES STEAM WORK No 1: BOXES, BAFFLES AND BRICK ARCHES - From firebox to flailing rods, the how-it-works series you wanted from us, written in user-friendly style!
THE GREAT DESIGNERS - SCOTTISH SURVEY - A JOLLY GOOD REID - In the first of four studies of great Scottish locomotive designs, Martin Smith considers the Reid Atlantics
THEY MADE HISTORY: THE CURIOUS HISTORY OF CORNWALL - The story of a L&NWR survivor, product of the dawn of the railway age
STEAM PORTFOLIO: A TICKET TO RYDE - To commemorate the Isle of Wight Steam Railway's extension, a celebration of Steam across the Solent
PRAIRIE STORIES - Second of our appraisals of the Churchward/Collett Prairie tanks
REMEMBER WHEN ... - Recalling the BR Standard classes, forty years on
RESTORATION UPDATE - Taking a look around Tyseley, news of Sir Niyl and Blue Peter, and why they're talking about a new "Planet" in Manchester
WATCHING BRIEF - We've been looking at new video releases
STEAM ON THE MAIN LINE - No5407 makes a Scottish substitution, winter steam from Paddington, and the low-down on steam in the fens
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: SWINDON'S "HALLS" - Take a closer look at a Collett/Hawksworth masterpiece
A BOOK FOR THE JOURNEY - Locomotives of the Southern, and of William Arthur Stanier on this month's reading list
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your guide to steam services around Britain until the end of October
FRONT COVER - The firebox, ashpon, injectors and associated gleaming copper pipework of Standard Class 8 Pacific No71000 Duke of Gloucester provide a suitable Image to accompany the first of our series on the workings of the steam locomotive, which deals with the role of the firebox and the importance of draughting to proper combustion. All, of course, to supply steam to turn the wheels. And that needs the kind of valve gear illustrated opposite, the well-greased Walschaerts gear of a Stonier 8F. Prominent are the combination lever, crosshead, slide bars, anchor link, valve spindle, valve spindle guide ... don't worry - all will be explained as our series progresses.
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