Turnaround at Corby - Jim Wade looks at the heyday, decline and revival of a Northamptonshire branch
Rail Riders Young Writer Competition - Winning entry, by Hamid Raza, and those of the two runners-up, Ruth Eastham and Alison Palfreyman
Making Narrow-Gauge Tracks - Hugh Dougherfy views three sites in Northern Ireland that convey past, present and future of three-foot lines
Round the Park - Gwynne Williams finds much to interest in a miniature railway at Poole
Telegraphese - Chris Irwin enjoys the lighter side of the railway telegram
Long Night - Short Day - Dr. E. M. Patter son footplates from Ardrossan to Carlisle and back by goods train in the day's of steam 
4-8-4 Tank Engines: Part one D. R. Carting surveys an unusual locomotive type
Locomotive Practice and Performance - P. W. B. Semmens concludes his review of the railcar revolution on British Railways, dealing particularly with the "Pacers" and "Skippers"

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Front cover - Class "T9" 4-4-0 No. 30120 climbs away from Brighton Lane Bridge,    on the Mid-Hants Railway, on September 15, 1985, with an early-afternoon service from Alresford to Alton.