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NEWS - Main line steam gets the go-ahead for at least another five years as SLOA Chairman Dick Hardy and BR's David Ward draw up a new agreement; how hurricane-hit southern England's steam lines fared in the big storm; why 'KGV will be staying on the main line after all - plus a frightening insight into what can happen inside an apparently sound steam loco boiler, when tubes start to corrode. All this, and much more, on SIX pages.
'BLACK 5' OVER TYNDRUM SUMMIT - For Driver Callum MacRaild it was the best day of his railway career; for Fireman Andy Gray, it was his first ever firing turn over the West Highland main line, and for almost everyone else, it was the most marvellous milestone in preserved steam running. Tour organiser Douglas Hodgins tells the inside story of the October 17 'Jacobite'.
GALLERY - You saw it only days ago - now here it is in full colour. 'Black 8' 48151 in all its glory on the 'Buxton Spa Express', 7F 53809 'on vacation' on the SVR, and City of Wells on its early-morning scour of the Settle & Carlisle - the pick of the pictures you took.
HOOKED - BY THE MOTIVE POWER DEPARTMENT - Les Warren, former Shedmaster at Leicester, Tebay and at the NYMR, relates more of what life was like for an Engineering Apprentice at Crewe Works in the last years of the LMS. The final part in our series 'Crewe - the Steam Years'.
HOME ON THE RANGE - Here in England, King George V and Clun Castle were running the last of BR's 'Carmarthen Express' specials around the coast from Swansea; 12,000 miles away, in the arid desertland of Western Australia, exiled GWR 4-6-0 No. 4079 Pendennis Castle was having its first major run in three years. Tom Winterbourn was on the footplate.
VIDEO REVIEW - Made up your mind for Christmas yet? Columnist Steve Le Cheminant gives another objective assessment of some of the railway videos released for the Christmas market.
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL! - It's been a long time since the North Yorkshire Moors Railway put out eight steam locos at a gala weekend - but now the good times are surely back again at Grosmont and Pickering. FULL COLOUR action from the October 10/11 extravaganza, including 9F No.92220 Evening Star on its special workings to and from Whitby.
NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE COMFORT! - Does the railway that you know take the welfare of its volunteers seriously? The Strathspey Railway does - it has recently opened its own 22-bed hostel at Aviemore - and for just Ã
'BLACK 5' OVER TYNDRUM SUMMIT - For Driver Callum MacRaild it was the best day of his railway career; for Fireman Andy Gray, it was his first ever firing turn over the West Highland main line, and for almost everyone else, it was the most marvellous milestone in preserved steam running. Tour organiser Douglas Hodgins tells the inside story of the October 17 'Jacobite'.
GALLERY - You saw it only days ago - now here it is in full colour. 'Black 8' 48151 in all its glory on the 'Buxton Spa Express', 7F 53809 'on vacation' on the SVR, and City of Wells on its early-morning scour of the Settle & Carlisle - the pick of the pictures you took.
HOOKED - BY THE MOTIVE POWER DEPARTMENT - Les Warren, former Shedmaster at Leicester, Tebay and at the NYMR, relates more of what life was like for an Engineering Apprentice at Crewe Works in the last years of the LMS. The final part in our series 'Crewe - the Steam Years'.
HOME ON THE RANGE - Here in England, King George V and Clun Castle were running the last of BR's 'Carmarthen Express' specials around the coast from Swansea; 12,000 miles away, in the arid desertland of Western Australia, exiled GWR 4-6-0 No. 4079 Pendennis Castle was having its first major run in three years. Tom Winterbourn was on the footplate.
VIDEO REVIEW - Made up your mind for Christmas yet? Columnist Steve Le Cheminant gives another objective assessment of some of the railway videos released for the Christmas market.
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL! - It's been a long time since the North Yorkshire Moors Railway put out eight steam locos at a gala weekend - but now the good times are surely back again at Grosmont and Pickering. FULL COLOUR action from the October 10/11 extravaganza, including 9F No.92220 Evening Star on its special workings to and from Whitby.
NOW THAT'S MORE LIKE COMFORT! - Does the railway that you know take the welfare of its volunteers seriously? The Strathspey Railway does - it has recently opened its own 22-bed hostel at Aviemore - and for just Ã
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