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roaming SR branch lines - Having spent the Saturday on the Somerset & Dorset hoping to get a shot of a S&D 2-8-0 on a passenger train (he didn't succeed) Bill Ashcroft spent a leisurely Sunday visiting the Southern branches between Templecombe and Exeter, including Lyme Regis, Seaton, Sidmouth and Exmouth, taking hours to travel by train over the 62 miles. the DAY OUR 'brit' dropped A fusible plug...Neglecting their duties, careless enginemen find themselves with a 'dropped' fusible plug. - R.H.N. Hardy recalls an incident on Brentwood Bank when a 'Britannia' class 'Pacific' lost two 'plugs. heaven and hell: buddy holly and A 'super D' - It's summer 1957 and a bunch of young cleaners at Wigan Springs Branch MPD are assigned the task of cleaning a filthy 'Super D'. One them, Arthur Pollard, recalls how the drudgery of cleaning was interrupted by the music of the day - the up and coming rock 'n' roll craze - while they plotted their escape to go and watch the great Buddy Holly in concert how THE GWR dealt with their 'difficult" earls - Unhappy with names being put on ancient-looking locomotives, the Earls of the day won 'promotion' to new 'Castle' class locomotives. However, as John Pearse explains, the namesplates were a neat fit. comment - All human life was to be found at railway stations, so companies went to great lengths to keep the different groups apart, says Editor Mel Holley. call attention - More oddities, suggestions and comments from the steam years. painting A rail revolution - The opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway was an event comparable to the first moon landing and within a decade this new form of transport was changing Britain - and the world - forever. Geoffrey Moore explains how a 10-year-old boy who witnessed Locomotion and its train, went on to paint one of the most famous canvasses of the early railway age. platform - Debate and discussion on a variety of topics 'rods' off the road! - As part of the war effort a number of GCR Robinson-designed 2-8-0s were built for the Railway Operating Department and sent overseas. These pictures from the collection of Bill Davies illustrate the fate of two fo them in what was then Palestine hereford & worcester - weeds and all! - Taking in of Western Region's bucolic byways, Chris Gammell travels on the last train over the Worcester to Bromyard line and then on to Leominster in 1958 that reminds me...A photograph in his collection prompts Andrew Dow to muse over the passing of railway coats of arms. great shot! - It's 1964 and 'Britannia' No. 70025 Western Star of Crewe North (5A) is paying a visit to Willesden MPD, London. the colin walker years...In the third part of our tribute to the late Colin Walker, who died earlier this year, we present a further selection of his wonderful photography. This month we turn to the London & North Eastern Region, the region on which Colin's photography is perhaps best known. On the cover: LMS 'Black Five' 4-6-0 No. 44984 is at Cricklewood MPD, London, on August 24 1963.
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