NEWS - Full and comprehensive coverage of August's dramatic 'runaway' accident on the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and insight into the possible cause; how a 'dangerous' electricity supply has forced the Bowes Railway to shut down; news and first pictures of Duke of Gloucester being lifted in Crewe Works - 20 years after being sent from there to the scrapyard, plus details of the return to traffic of 34106 Swanage, 53808, and lots, lots more...
SPIRIT OF THE SOMERSET & DORSET - it's the 125th year of the Somerset & Dorset Railway, celebrated by the return to steam on the West Somerset Railway of S & D 2-8-0 No. 53808 and by exhibitions elsewhere. Mike Fox turns the spotlight on the Somerset Central Railway -135 this year - which gave the 'S & D proper' its real identity.
PASSING GO - The East Lanes Railway is at last on the board in the great game (game?) of regular steam passenger operation, almost 20 years after preservationist plans to revive steam on the former L & YR lines in East Lancashire were first mooted. David Wilcock looks at the enterprise which, on July 25 last, became an 'instant' four-mile railway.
GARSDALE, AND ITS INCREDIBLE HIGH SPEED TURN TABLE - Terry Sykes has more than a passing interest in the former Midland Railway turntable at Garsdale, on the Settle & Carlisle line: he's just bought it from BR for Ã