A weekend visit to swindon and WR sheds - Using a circular tour ticket, renowned shed basher Patrick Evans spends a weekend travelling from his Llandudno home to take in Swindon Works and sheds across a huge swathe of the Western Region, including Bristol and Cornwall, in his marathon tour.
Ian Krause: How the southern 'bug' bit me - A Southern triptych: In the first of three 'panels' of work by lan Krause he explains his early 'calling' to railway photograph - rapidly tempered by Agfa colour film and a disastrous fire.
the delights of steam in london - Despite travelling all over Britain, Londoner Frank Hornby always found that his home city offered more variety and quantity than anywhere else, as he recalls using his own photographs in this celebration of London-steam.
built for speed: GNR 'atlantics' in profile - It is now just over 100 years since Ivatt's 'Atlantic' made its first appearance and Jim Clarke profiles the remarkable design.
comment - Why the railway thought it was worthwhile running summer 'extras.'
call attention - More oddities, suggestion and comments from the steam years.
To wales and the west in '53 - On the third day of his big shed-bash David Bertram is in deepest west and south Wales, but to his surprise finds ancient Webb tanks, LNWR 0-8-Os and the last GWR 'Saint' at work.
of people and places - no sooner had he returned to his home shed in Edinburgh, than the late Charles Meacher was sent to North Berwick shed, inhabited by a mixed collection of 'characterful' enginemen.
A four-coupled interlude - Once the classic British locomotive design, locomotives with four coupled driving wheels were still to be found in reasonable quantities on the Southern in the immediate post-war years as Jim Aston illustrated in his own pictures.
the fast-line files - In the latest instalment a selection aof superb black and white images from the archive of Fastline Photographic Ltd, Andrew Dow looks at derailments on the Eastern Region.
happy days! - Concluding his account of footplate runs while working for BR. Grant Reid recalls the day a 'Britannia', which had replaced a failed diesel, gained nearly 30 minutes on diesel timings from Carlisle to Glasgow.
great shot! - In a delightfully neat and tidy scene at Ardrossen Town, Ayrshire, on June 22 1962. LMS 4MT' 2-6-4T No. 42196 pauses with a RCTS railtour, photographed by Frank Hornby,
platform - Debate and discussion on a wide variety of topics - across the entire steam scene.
Aerofilms visits Darlington - Aerofilms took our view from the air of Darlington shed, on October 21 1949.
from OUR MAN IN THE VAN...Having moved from Shrewsbury to a wartime workers' hostel at Hereford, young Ron Wellings starts his training as a goods guard on the GWR.
next issue - Our peek at next month's timetable, to find out what's going to arrive in the July issue of Britain's top-selling historical railway magazine. Don't miss out!

ON THE COVER: It's March 23 1963 and LMS '2MT' 2-6-0 No. 46424 comes onto Willesden shed, with 'Jinty' No. 47307 in the background.