Features:
Two Glasgow Museums - Hugh Dougherty visits the Springhurn collection, opened last year, and marks the first stage of change of location for Glasgow Museum of Transport
Settle-Carlisle Survival - Rodger P. Bradley believes the strong campaigns against closure of "England's Greatest Historical Scenic Route" have been vindicated by the TUCCs' conclusions
Ballachulish: End of the Line - Malcolm Roughley remembers a country branch, and the class "27"s
Rails in Cork and Kerry - Shane McQuillan, in the second of two articles on railways in southern Eire, examines the flourishing preservation movement there
Change at Liverpool Street - Rebuilding of this London terminus gathers momentum
Locomotive Practice and Performance - P. W. B. Semmens goes by rail to the Top of Europe
'High Ironing' Deluxe - R. J. Dubse enthuses over touring North American railroads in a private carriage
Kidderminster's Extraordinary Terminus - Donald J. M. Smith discovers the impressive Great Western-style station being built by the Severn Valley Railway  

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Front cover - Locomotive 45 130 catches a ray of evening sunshine on June 27, 1985, at Brockhampton, as it departs from Cheltenham heading the 14.15 Plymouth-Leeds parcels.