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Features: Mallard '88 Special - P. W. B. Semmens travels behind the LNER record-breaker on the anniversary run commemorating its feat of fifty years earlier News and Notes - "Talyllyn" renumbered; Preparing for the Channel; Proposed colliery link; Travellers Fare to be sold; Package for Chiltern; Llangollen leases Ruabon Making Tracks at Summerlee - Hugh Dougherty previews a Scottish open-air industrial museum, near Glasgow 'Britain's New Railways' - P. W. B. Semmens visits the British displays at the International Transport & Traffic Exhibition at Hamburg in June, and comments on some European trends for the future Crompton from Cardiff - Malcolm Roughley samples a footplate ride on a class "33" Locomotive Practice and Performance - P. W. B. Semmens covers high-speed happenings and fastest timings achieved by HSTs Wolverton 150 - Doug. Smith reflects on the 150th anniversary of Wolverton Works and interviews some of the staff of the maintenance depot there Last Lickey Bankers - Tony Higgs witnesses the last booked working of a railway tradition going back to the 1840s 'Duchess of Hamilton' at Fifty - Michael Blakemore reviews progress of work to restore the National Railway Museum's famous West Coast locomotive to main-line running Regular Features: Coming Events Fifty Years Ago Panorama Mail Bag Traffic & Traction Why & Wherefore Railfare Railfare Extra Front Cover - Front end of LNER 4472, "Flying Scotsman", at Southall undergoing overhaul in preparation/or its visit to Australia (see also pages 578/9).
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