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NEWS - The series of trains to be hauled by A4 'Pacific' No. 4468 Mallard next year do not include a run down Stoke Bank, where its 126mph world speed record was achieved in 1938. There's the chance of a last-minute reprieve for Birmingham's Moor Street Station, and even a plan to run steam-hauled tourist trains from its platforms. Slieve Gullion comes to the rescue in Ireland. King George V is damaged in a derailment. All this and much more on seven pages of steam news.
GALLERY - Our four-page topical photographic feature includes Flying Scotsman and City of Wells alternating on the 'Sellafield Sightseer'; Irish 'rescuer' Slieve Gullion and its stablemate. Merlin on the Lough Gill railtour; Mallard on the 'Birdwatch Europe Express' and - in colour - the LMS 'Jinty' in crimson lake at Butterley.
STEAM SPECIALS ON THE SOUTHERN - PART II - Tony Butcher concludes his nostalgic look at the special railtours on the Southern Region during the dying years of steam - and describes the void he and thousands more felt upon witnessing the last of Southern steam lined up for scrap in the shed yard at Salisbury on August 6, 1967.
BACK TO THE DOUBLE TRACK MAIN LINE IDEAL - The Great Central Railway's expansion plans could eventually transform the 51/2-mile preserved line from Loughborough to Rothley into a 17-mile double-track main line linking Leicester and Nottingham and, as Dennis Wilcock explains, coming close to the ambitious plans first put forward 18 years ago.
THE GLORIOUS YEARS - There was something awesome about lying in a cabin half way up Mallerstang, in dead of night, as the steady rhythmic pounding of a 9F with a heavy freight was brought on the wind ...' So says guest photographer Bob Clarke, whose portfolio includes three pages in colour.
WORLDWIDE REPORT - David Thornhill's steam news from abroad this month centres on Turkey, France, Italy and Yugoslavia - the latter a Communist state where, despite the marketing of steam specials for tourists, the police and public are still ultra-sensitive to the idea of railway photography.
MAILBAG - The idea of a resurrected section of the Somerset and Dorset Railway has brought a flood of mail from our readers, and the debate on how far you can hear the noise of a train from continues. Two sides to the idea of 'giving generously' towards steam projects are aired - and a reader remembers enthusiastically the day he 'copped' two Sandwiches.
KIDDERMINSTER: THE BUILDING OF A SIGNAL BOX - David Wittamore describes the building of the brand new Great Western-style signal box at Severn Valley Railway's Kidderminster station, which with 54 levers due to be connected up and working by November will be possibly the largest signal box on any preserved railway.
MOMENTS THE CAMERA MISSED - The paintbrush of Robin Barnes captures a rare moment in time in March 1952 when air-smoothed Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' Pacific No. 35002 Union Castle ran in dark green -with a temporarily-acquired bright blue 5,000 gallon tender!
TRAIN INFORMATION - Now that summer's here, our complete guide to operating days at Britain's principal steam railways and centres, including normal tinrfetabled events as well as special gala events, will prove invaluable to those on the move.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS - As Steam Railway goes from success to success, our pages of classified are growing, too. They are well worth a close scan by anyone with steam in the blood and well worth using if you have something to advertise.
PERMANENT WAY..How the view at Pontsticill, on the former Brecon to Newport line, has changed since the summer of 1962 - but at least the sound of steam can still be heard there, for the trackbed now carries part of the Brecon Mountain Railway.
GALLERY - Our four-page topical photographic feature includes Flying Scotsman and City of Wells alternating on the 'Sellafield Sightseer'; Irish 'rescuer' Slieve Gullion and its stablemate. Merlin on the Lough Gill railtour; Mallard on the 'Birdwatch Europe Express' and - in colour - the LMS 'Jinty' in crimson lake at Butterley.
STEAM SPECIALS ON THE SOUTHERN - PART II - Tony Butcher concludes his nostalgic look at the special railtours on the Southern Region during the dying years of steam - and describes the void he and thousands more felt upon witnessing the last of Southern steam lined up for scrap in the shed yard at Salisbury on August 6, 1967.
BACK TO THE DOUBLE TRACK MAIN LINE IDEAL - The Great Central Railway's expansion plans could eventually transform the 51/2-mile preserved line from Loughborough to Rothley into a 17-mile double-track main line linking Leicester and Nottingham and, as Dennis Wilcock explains, coming close to the ambitious plans first put forward 18 years ago.
THE GLORIOUS YEARS - There was something awesome about lying in a cabin half way up Mallerstang, in dead of night, as the steady rhythmic pounding of a 9F with a heavy freight was brought on the wind ...' So says guest photographer Bob Clarke, whose portfolio includes three pages in colour.
WORLDWIDE REPORT - David Thornhill's steam news from abroad this month centres on Turkey, France, Italy and Yugoslavia - the latter a Communist state where, despite the marketing of steam specials for tourists, the police and public are still ultra-sensitive to the idea of railway photography.
MAILBAG - The idea of a resurrected section of the Somerset and Dorset Railway has brought a flood of mail from our readers, and the debate on how far you can hear the noise of a train from continues. Two sides to the idea of 'giving generously' towards steam projects are aired - and a reader remembers enthusiastically the day he 'copped' two Sandwiches.
KIDDERMINSTER: THE BUILDING OF A SIGNAL BOX - David Wittamore describes the building of the brand new Great Western-style signal box at Severn Valley Railway's Kidderminster station, which with 54 levers due to be connected up and working by November will be possibly the largest signal box on any preserved railway.
MOMENTS THE CAMERA MISSED - The paintbrush of Robin Barnes captures a rare moment in time in March 1952 when air-smoothed Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' Pacific No. 35002 Union Castle ran in dark green -with a temporarily-acquired bright blue 5,000 gallon tender!
TRAIN INFORMATION - Now that summer's here, our complete guide to operating days at Britain's principal steam railways and centres, including normal tinrfetabled events as well as special gala events, will prove invaluable to those on the move.
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS - As Steam Railway goes from success to success, our pages of classified are growing, too. They are well worth a close scan by anyone with steam in the blood and well worth using if you have something to advertise.
PERMANENT WAY..How the view at Pontsticill, on the former Brecon to Newport line, has changed since the summer of 1962 - but at least the sound of steam can still be heard there, for the trackbed now carries part of the Brecon Mountain Railway.
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