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eatures: Locomotive Practice and Performance - P. W. B. Semmens travels on French Railways prestige "La Nouvelle Premiere", which had exceptionally high-class catering services News and Notes - First "319" handed over; "Skippers" farewell; Chiltem changes; Level crossing report; Mid-Hants restorations; Somerset success A Vanished Species - Charles Bayes remembers the pre-war commercial traveller by rail, with his specialised packs of samples and travel concessions Industrial Variety - J. H. Parker reviews five years of locomotive stock alterations on non-BR lines High Speed in Oils - Terence Cuneo describes the work involved in producing a commemorative painting to mark the 50th anniversary of "Mallard's" world speed record The Six-Minute Connection - Robert Spark praises the interchange between rail and air now available at Geneva Mentholyptus Merriment - Malcolm Roughley samples "vapour action" on a nostalgic excursion Light Rail through Docklands - Regenerated area of the East End of London now served by automatically-driven electric trains Snow Hill Re-Arises - John B. Gosling visits Birmingham's new station, part of building development on the'site of the old Scottish Restorations - Hugh Dougherty enthuses over two station-building refurbishment schemesa€at Troon on the still-busy Ayr line from Glasgow; and at Melrose on the long-closed Waverley Route Regular Features: Coming Events Fifty Years Ago Panorama Mail Bag Traffic & Traction Why & Wherefore Railfare Front cover: No. 75069 simmers in Bewdley Yard, Severn Valley Railway, on December 29 last, awaiting duties the following day. It is around midnight and the temperature has dropped to minus 8 deg. C. Braziers have been placed on both sides of the locomotive to prevent water pipes from freezing.
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