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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
he genius of Brunel - The Story of Isambard Kingdom Brunei, the little man in the tall hat who pioneered the construction of the Great Western Railway
What's on during GWR 150 - A full diary of events, exhibitions and special trains round the country to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the GWR
This power and the glory - The four-cylinder 'Castle' and 'King' 4-6-Os represented the Great Western Railway's pinnacle of power and performance
The magic of Swindon - Even though the GWR exists no more, the ghosts of the men and the machines that made it famous live on in this Wiltshire town
Life on the branch - The country branch line, where life went on at a comfortable pace well away from the rush and clamour of the main line, was one of the mainstays of the GWR
Colour section - Eight-pages of colour including a special painting by artist Mike Turner entitled 'Western Evening'
Long live the King! - It s rescue was once dubbed 'mission impossible' a€ but now No. 6023 King Edward II, complete with half-cut driving wheels, stands securely at Bristol Temple Meads
A steam artist remembers - Geoffrey Wheeler an airbrush expert in locomotive profiles, looks back to his train-spotting and working days on the GWR in the 1930s and 40s
A legacy to treasure - A full list of all surviving Great Western Railway locomotives. whether already to restored to pristine condition, or still crumbling away on the scrap lines
A fireman's tale - Former Great Western footplateman Harold Gasson recalls a typical night's work aboard a Churchward 2-8-0 goods locomotive in wartime
Churchward and 'The Bear' - No history of the GWR would be complete without a mention of No. Ill The Great Bear, George Jackson Churchward's pioneering Pacific locomotive
Work, war and peace - A former Bristol locoman takes off the rose-tinted spectacles and looks at life with the GWR as it really was in both war and peace
Gooch's broad-gauge flyers - When the young Daniel Gooch took up his position in the infant Great Western Railway, he was surrounded by a variety of unreliable locomotives which often kept him up all night
What's on during GWR 150 - A full diary of events, exhibitions and special trains round the country to mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the GWR
This power and the glory - The four-cylinder 'Castle' and 'King' 4-6-Os represented the Great Western Railway's pinnacle of power and performance
The magic of Swindon - Even though the GWR exists no more, the ghosts of the men and the machines that made it famous live on in this Wiltshire town
Life on the branch - The country branch line, where life went on at a comfortable pace well away from the rush and clamour of the main line, was one of the mainstays of the GWR
Colour section - Eight-pages of colour including a special painting by artist Mike Turner entitled 'Western Evening'
Long live the King! - It s rescue was once dubbed 'mission impossible' a€ but now No. 6023 King Edward II, complete with half-cut driving wheels, stands securely at Bristol Temple Meads
A steam artist remembers - Geoffrey Wheeler an airbrush expert in locomotive profiles, looks back to his train-spotting and working days on the GWR in the 1930s and 40s
A legacy to treasure - A full list of all surviving Great Western Railway locomotives. whether already to restored to pristine condition, or still crumbling away on the scrap lines
A fireman's tale - Former Great Western footplateman Harold Gasson recalls a typical night's work aboard a Churchward 2-8-0 goods locomotive in wartime
Churchward and 'The Bear' - No history of the GWR would be complete without a mention of No. Ill The Great Bear, George Jackson Churchward's pioneering Pacific locomotive
Work, war and peace - A former Bristol locoman takes off the rose-tinted spectacles and looks at life with the GWR as it really was in both war and peace
Gooch's broad-gauge flyers - When the young Daniel Gooch took up his position in the infant Great Western Railway, he was surrounded by a variety of unreliable locomotives which often kept him up all night
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