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The Sunset of Southern Steam - Forty years ago, steam came to an end on the Southern Region and to mark the occasion, John H. Bird describes the last years of steam, including a blow-by-blow account of the last weekend.

Island Line - Relaunching the Time Capsule - Phil Marsh visits the Island Line and Ryde Works to discover plans to keep the 70- year-old trains running for another decade.

Class 37 Liveries - Part four of our fascinating pictorial feature compiled by Darren Ford, showing the livery variants carried by Class 37s.

A Dozen Routes to the Lakes - David Wright shows how varied Britaina€ s railways are by summarising 12 routes from East Anglia to the Lake Districta€ none of them via London.

The Elizabethan Revisited - In Practice & Performance, John Heaton takes a nostalgic look at a€~The Elizabethana€ and compares it to todaya€ s GNER services.

Panorama - Our regular monthly showcase featuring outstanding railway photography.


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FRONT COVER: GB Railfreight has been renamed First GBRf. In the days before the title change. Class 73 electro-diesels Nos. 73208 and 73206 approach Wandsworth Road station, in south London, with a Clapham to Hoo Junction engineers train on December 16, 2006. INSET: Class 47 No. 47832 becomes the first to display Victa Westlink Rail's livery - see page 77.