NEWS - Seven pages on the most topical news developments in the preservation world, including plans by Bill McAlpine to take over the redundant Southall diesel depot as a steam base, record receipts for BR's Fort William steam service, the return of steam on the Cambrian line in 1987, and full details of staff redundancies at Steamtown, Carnforth - plus lots, lots more,
BURIED TREASURE - David Wilcock tells the remarkable story of how two Great Northern 'Atlantic' boilers have been discovered on a factory site in Maldon, Essex - 30 years after they had apparently been scrapped.
GALLERY - The pictures of the month - and the locomotives which have been making the news. We focus in on LMS Black 5 No. 44767 during its Inverness - Helmsdale test run, its return south via the S & C, and its appearance on the Worth Valley branch. Plus 5593 Kolhapur on the Manchester - Southport specials, and a look at some gala day operations.
WORLDWIDE REPORT - Canada's 'Steamexpo' event in Vancouver may have been an anti-climax - but there's nothing timid about the programme of main line steam the Austrians are planning for their 150th anniversary of railways next year. Columnist David Thocnhill provides the details.
AND NOW FOR BLUE PETER - The North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group is punctuating its 20th birthday with its most ambitious loco project yet - the rebuilding of A2 'Pacific' No. 60532 Blue Peter, for main line use in 1988, cash permitting. Maurice Burns reviews the Group's past and future milestones.
'CITY OF WELLS' - PUTTING THE GIESL TO THE TEST - Full-colour glimpse of some of the work performed by the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway's unrebuilt 'Pacific', since the fitting of a Giesl ejector blastpipe system in May this year.
FOOTPLATE REBELLION - When a fireman put his foot down and refused to fire one of Woodford's 'rough old B17s', shedmaster Richard Hardy decided to lead by example - and took over the shovel himself to show how it could be done. Here he wraps up his two-part article on the trials that faced the men of the GC in the 1950s.
DISCOVERING THE BRECON MOUNTAIN RAILWAY - it's been a part of the Welsh narrow gauge scene now for seven years, but to the enthusiast world, the Brecon Mountain Railway is still largely undiscovered. David Eatweli sheds some light on the scenic 1ft. 113/iin. gauge line in the Brecon Beacons, which will shortly be operating its newly-acquired Garratt
MAILBAG - The UK preservation scene comprises magnificent railways chronically short of motive power, and-steam centres full of locomotives with no-where to run. How can the inbalance be corrected? Your views on this, and many other topics, on three pages.
THE GLORIOUS YEARS - John Henton' is the guest photographer providing this month's helping of unabashed nostalgia - a superb selection of previously unpublished photographs from both the pre and post Nationalisation eras.
TRAIN INFORMATION - Listing all the information you're likely to need to help you decide which railways to visit in the weeks ahead. Plus more diary dates as the railway society meetings season gets into gear again.
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