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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
News - The return of a Large Logo-liveried Class 47 and a Class 50 back at Waterloo. Yahoo! News preservation - More varied traction action, news and views from our heritage lines. Cornish memories - We commence a major, four-part pictorial series by Bernard Mills, who has been photographing diesels at work in the West Country for around 35 years. Three for the price of one - Phil Quine reflects on a rail+our to Clacton. He got there eventually - and has a mug and a certificate to prove it Class 47 decline - Parrot sifts through the good news - and the not-so-good - for the fleet in June 2003. Showcase - True blue - past and present - featuring a fabulous six-locomotive line-up at Old Oak. Keeping warm - A hot tale from Paul Smith as he reveals more of his experiences as a Secondman. Going green - We don't know much about art but we like David Patch's painting which brought a '47' to the attention of tabloid press readers. Scotland East & North - Some splendid, nostalgic Images from Roger SIviter to herald his new picture book. Killer 'Queen' - Adrian Curtis probes the tragedy at Knowie and Dorridge 40 years on and presents some interesting new findings TPO - The latest thought-provoking selection of your pictures and correspondence. The first of the fleet - 1500/47 401 has now been preserved for a decade - we look back at some of the early liveries, while Michael Hill concentrates on the celebrity's latter days in BR serwfce. Shunters - There was once a staggering variety of different classes of diesel shunter Mervyn Lean features some of these at wait in the 1960s with more atmospheric scenes. 53 Review - A critical look at some recent products plus a special book offer for Traction readers Reaching the parts...Who would have thought that 'Deltic' would turn up at Kyte of Lochalish and Mallaig? Mike Cooper was amongst the lucky fans on their fab 'Freedom of Scotland' tour. Cover: Large Logo 47 635 passes Welshs Bridge signal box as it leaves Inverness with the 10.25 to Aberdeen on August 30, 1986.
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