Maintaining the Standards: Allan C. Baker follows up his feature articles on the 'Britannia' 4-6-2s and Duke of Gloucester with a look at the job of maintaining the BR Standard classes. In particular, he recalls the running-in of ex-works locomotives from Crewe North shed
The 'Oliver Cromwell' Appeal: Steam Railway, our sister journal, is spear-heading a remarkable fund-raising project to restore No. 70013 Oliver Cromwell to main line working order to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the end of BR steam. Here's how YOU can help us to turn the clock back and make a dream come true!
Winning the War of Words: The National Railway Museum, York, has a magnificent collection of railway poster art. Bcverley Cole, who works with the poster collection at the NRM, provides an insight into how the railways' publicity machine played its part on the home front in the Second World War
Book Reviews: The winter has seen another large array of new publications and Steam World provides an appraisal of some interesting recent arrivals.
The Fowler '4Fs': Probably the best-known of British 0-6-0s, the LMS '4Fs' constituted the largest class of locomotives in the UK until the advent of the 'Black Fives'. GeoffRixon presents a selection of his best '4F' views to accompany his notes on the class
A Scottish Soldier: The Great North of Scotland Railway, operating north wast of Aberdeen, largely escaped the attention of its geographically-distant masters on the LNER and later BR. Its handsome 4-4-Os of the LNER 'D40' class lasted into BR days and one of them became a celebrity, as recalled by David Anderson
Telegraph and Trainmen: The job of organising the running of trains fell to signalmen and controllers in thousands of boxes up and down the country. Clem Huzzey has written up some reminiscences of a controller working at Bromsgrove, which controlled a notable railway bottle-neck - the Uckcy Incline
Wolverhampton Oxiey Recalled: Wolverhampton was an attractive place for the enthusiast because it had three major locomotive depots. Les Nixon recorded on black and white film, the mood and atmosphere of the GWR depot at Oxicy towards the end of its existence
Extremely Unhappy Times after National Service: In the third, and final, part of his article, G.W. Green recounts some of the trials and tribulations of a BR clerk's lot during the 1950s. In this time he worked for four different bosses and eventually left BR
Platform: Running-in from Crewc, 'Bis* at Lancaster, and 'H' tanks 'down on the Old Pull and Push' are just some of the subjects in this month's selection of readers' letters.
Index: In response to reader requests we include an index to the 1992 volume of Steam Wbrld. The page can be photo-copied for inclusion in your bound volume.
Mostly the Art and Practice of Rostering Enginemen: In the second part of his series, R.H.N. Hardy concludes his look behind the scenes at the mysteries of locomotive crew rostering at King's Lynn and South I.ynn depots.

Front cover: '57XX' 0-6-0PT No. 3635 heads a Newquay branch local train round the curve out of Par station in June 1960.