Comment - The Editor recalls BR's close connection with shipping and maritime operations.
Call Attention - Chris Leigh emerges from the signalbox to salute an American war veteran and wonders about 'Photoshopping' a photograph of Barnwell.
partisanship was still alive and well in the 1960S.
Fireman Alan Mitchell pulled strings and made his driver miss
the comfort of a-'9F' 2-10-0 in favour of an elderly Hughes-
Fowler 'Crab' for one last trip on the East Coast main line.
The 'King's' last journey - Passed Fireman Colin Jacks was given the unusual job of taking the last working 'King' 4-6-0 from Tyseley to Swindon for scrapping.
The Shipley Triangle - These days it has platforms on all three sides but in the 1960s Shipley was very different as revealed by Gavin Morrison.
The 'Brits' and me - Richard Derry did not cop 'Britannias' until going beyond SR boundaries, but soon developed a taste for the BR Standard 'Pacifies'.
Great Shot! - A smart locomotive and a crew posing for camera as the Royal train heads through North Wales.
Platform - More of your letters and comments about recent Steam World articles, plus our popular crossword puzzle.
My early railway experiences - In part four of his autobiographical series Bob Essery tells of his time on bank engines and pilots working from Saltley depot.
Three decades of swindon visits - Frank Hornby recalls the delights he found at Swindon over 30 years of visits to the great GWR workshops.
More Trainspotting and Football - Robin Bamber combined his two hobbies and used trips to watch Preston North End as an opportunity to get plenty of cops.
Superlative Salisbury - lAndrew Britton concludes his look |at the last years of steam in Wiltshire's great cathedral city.
Reviews - More books come in for the scrutiny of Steam World's revewers.
Cover: No. 48196 stands at Burton Shed on April 1 1965
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