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Steam & Heritage - Blue ‘King’ for Paignton? Llangollen GWR 2-8-0 sold,
‘CanPac’ re-wheeled, gala success forWest Somerset and Great Central, A1 Trust eyes ex-SDR depot building.

Industrial Steam
Steam Portfolio
Narrow Gauge
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Network
ECML power supply upgraded for new trains, Forres station relocated, further blockades on
Gospel Oak-Barking to complete electrification work.
Classic Traction
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Freight
World

Traction & Stock - Hitachi rolls out first British-built Class 385s for ScotRail, Class 20s on RHTT, more Class 707s delivered, extra Class 221 formed from spareVT/XC vehicles.

Stock Update
Traction Portfolio
Operations

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Features:
Fatal Fracture - Fraser Pithie looks back at the Hither Green derailment of November 5, 1967
and the maintenance failures that led the death of 49 passengers.
Practice & Performance: West Coast Class 50s - JohnHeaton shares his timing logs
from October’s ‘Caledonian’ railtour to Glasgow, and compares them with a selection of historical runs.
Railway Lives: PB Whitehouse - In the latest of his short biographies of well-known railway authors,
Robert Humm tells the story of a famous photographer and preservation pioneer.
Completing the Set - An update on the Great Western Society’s project to build a replica Hawksworth ‘County’, and how you can help to complete the family of GWR 4-6-0s.
Reflections of BR - A selection of wonderfully atmospheric and evocative scenes from northern England in the 1970s, captured by the camera of Andy Sparks.

COVER: BR ‘Standard 4’ No. 75014 approaches Blue Anchor on the West Somerset Railway during an venture away from its Dartmouth Steam Railway home.
INSET: Railway Lives: PB Whitehouse.
INSET: Evocative views of 1970s BR.
INSET: Recalling the Hither Green disaster of 1967.