Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
NEWS - think operations on the main line have got about as they can, Paul Furtek presents a further selection of _-hts which have got 1998 off to a flying start.
TAKING STOCK - Neil Webster brings us up to date with all the recent namings, reallocations and other changes.
PRESERVED TRACTION - An Easter return to operational condition for 50 019 'Ramillies'? A revenue-earning capacity on engineering work for Trainload Coal 26 004? Jarrod Cotter has the details.
RAILTOUR FILE - Have a browse and pick out your favourite combination of motive roTA-er and route for some excellent springtime thrash.
CLASSIC CLASSES - Baby Love. John Hypher tells the troubled tale of the 'Baby Deities'.
FRAGONSET INSIGHT - Richard Thompson spoke to Martin Sargent of Fragonset Railways to find out the facts behind this fascinating locomotive hire company.
EAST ANGLIAN 'WHISTLERS' - A selection of John D Mann's photographs of Class 40s at work in East Anglia during the late 1970s.
BASHING DISASTERS! - Remember when things didn't quite go according to plan in your search for haulage? Jez Hinks recollects some days that went much the same.
A 'HOOVER' IN ESSEX... A 'DELTIC' ON THE FLY-ASH? - Yes, an almost unbelievable case of off the beaten track, and what looks like the most bizarre 'Strange Turn' this side of Mars!
SHOWCASE - Normal service can now be resumed. This month our selection of nostalgic scenes encompasses the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, with Teaks', 20s, 37s, a Class 22, 50 023, D9011, EWS liveried 56 117 and even 10000 providing the range of motive power on offer.
A GRAND DAY OUT - Sunday best. On Sunday, May 1 1977, Fred Kerr took his camera and notebook around several depots in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire to record the motive power variety on offer at the time.
PRESERVATION CASEBOOK - Bubblemania. Ritchie Marcus reports on the progress made by the Shackerstone D.M.U. Group as they endeavour to provide the Battlefield Line with operational units.
EASTLEIGH - Andrew Mist examines in words and pictures the rich variety of loco-hauled traffic to be seen at this popular rail centre.
TAY BRIDGE TYPE 2s - A photographic presentation of three different loco classes at work at Dundee Tay Bridge recorded in the 1980s by Scott Cunningham.
WHAT'S IN STORE AND WHERE - Neil Webster presents an up-to-date round-up of the locations of all the locomotives and units which are currently in store.
REVIEW - Recent pickings of a varied crop of new video releases.
RAILNET HUB - More 'gen' on the railway orientated internet scene.
TPO - This month's selection of your recent correspondence.
MODELLING - On the modelling front this time around, topics include what's in store from Hornby for 1998 and where to find out all about creating a detailed model of 50 149 Defiance.
NOW THERE'S AN ENTERPRISING IDEA 2 - The concluding part of David J Hayes' feature on the Enterprise traffic which visits the West Midlands.
WESTERN REGION VARIETY - A fascinating picture study of the early BR(W) diesel era compiled from slides in the Class Twenty Locomotive Society's sales list.
TAKING STOCK - Neil Webster brings us up to date with all the recent namings, reallocations and other changes.
PRESERVED TRACTION - An Easter return to operational condition for 50 019 'Ramillies'? A revenue-earning capacity on engineering work for Trainload Coal 26 004? Jarrod Cotter has the details.
RAILTOUR FILE - Have a browse and pick out your favourite combination of motive roTA-er and route for some excellent springtime thrash.
CLASSIC CLASSES - Baby Love. John Hypher tells the troubled tale of the 'Baby Deities'.
FRAGONSET INSIGHT - Richard Thompson spoke to Martin Sargent of Fragonset Railways to find out the facts behind this fascinating locomotive hire company.
EAST ANGLIAN 'WHISTLERS' - A selection of John D Mann's photographs of Class 40s at work in East Anglia during the late 1970s.
BASHING DISASTERS! - Remember when things didn't quite go according to plan in your search for haulage? Jez Hinks recollects some days that went much the same.
A 'HOOVER' IN ESSEX... A 'DELTIC' ON THE FLY-ASH? - Yes, an almost unbelievable case of off the beaten track, and what looks like the most bizarre 'Strange Turn' this side of Mars!
SHOWCASE - Normal service can now be resumed. This month our selection of nostalgic scenes encompasses the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, with Teaks', 20s, 37s, a Class 22, 50 023, D9011, EWS liveried 56 117 and even 10000 providing the range of motive power on offer.
A GRAND DAY OUT - Sunday best. On Sunday, May 1 1977, Fred Kerr took his camera and notebook around several depots in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire to record the motive power variety on offer at the time.
PRESERVATION CASEBOOK - Bubblemania. Ritchie Marcus reports on the progress made by the Shackerstone D.M.U. Group as they endeavour to provide the Battlefield Line with operational units.
EASTLEIGH - Andrew Mist examines in words and pictures the rich variety of loco-hauled traffic to be seen at this popular rail centre.
TAY BRIDGE TYPE 2s - A photographic presentation of three different loco classes at work at Dundee Tay Bridge recorded in the 1980s by Scott Cunningham.
WHAT'S IN STORE AND WHERE - Neil Webster presents an up-to-date round-up of the locations of all the locomotives and units which are currently in store.
REVIEW - Recent pickings of a varied crop of new video releases.
RAILNET HUB - More 'gen' on the railway orientated internet scene.
TPO - This month's selection of your recent correspondence.
MODELLING - On the modelling front this time around, topics include what's in store from Hornby for 1998 and where to find out all about creating a detailed model of 50 149 Defiance.
NOW THERE'S AN ENTERPRISING IDEA 2 - The concluding part of David J Hayes' feature on the Enterprise traffic which visits the West Midlands.
WESTERN REGION VARIETY - A fascinating picture study of the early BR(W) diesel era compiled from slides in the Class Twenty Locomotive Society's sales list.
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