Comment - The editor recalls some favourite spotting places, including a glimpse of the first places from which he watched trains.
Call attention - Another pot pourri of thoughts from Chris Leigh on topics which have caught his attention lately.
The last 'king' - 9 The remarkable story of how one man's railtour plan got a GWR 4-6-0 re-instated to traffic and almost - so very nearly - saw it preserved.
Day trip to essendine - We pay a visit to the East Coast racing ground for a day's linesiding in 1953 with A. E. Buckley.
Getty's king's cross - Thanks to the LNER's publicity department, the press photographers were frequent visitors to King's Cross in the 1920s and 1930s.
Platform - A bumper selection of readers' letters and comments plus our regular crossword.
Great shot! - A Gresley 'V2' is the subject of this month's centre spread.
My mother called me harry! - Working from Bury MPD, Brian Topping enjoyed the company of a driver who did not like his nickname.
What's wrong with that? - Southern Region locomotive works were told to add 30,000 to the old SR locomotive numbers, but Brighton took it literally, comma and all!
No more passengers To tenterden - Neil Sprinks provides a remarkable portrait of the last years of the Kent & East Sussex Railway, closed nearly 60 years ago.
That reminds me...Andrew Dow remembers the splendid sight of railway Coats of Arms, now sadly replaced by corporate logos.
Last years of the '9FS' - Prolific and powerful and the final four years of the BR'9F'2-10-0s are recalled by Peter Cooper.
Reviews- Another batch of books, good, bad and indifferent come under the scrutiny of Steam World reviewers.
On the Cover: Rebuilt Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' 4-6-2 No. 35028 Clan Line dashes through Lyndhurst Road in the New forest with the down 'Bournemouth Belle' on October 11 1964.
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