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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Intensive service in Hampshire — the Mid-Hants Railway - Chris Leigh
Keeping KG V at work - Brian Dodd
Preservation viewpoints - Photo feature
The Dean Forest Railway - P. Skinner
All through the year...Photo feature
K&WVR No 72 - Robin Higgins
Steam photographer - Peter J. C. Skelton - Photo feature
ARPS Briefing - News review
(Cover) Top: 'King- 4-6-0 No 6000 King George V on Church Stretton bank with the 'Deeside Venturer' charter train of 4 October 1980. left: Rebuilt "West Country' 4-6-2 No 34016 Bodmin climbs towards Ropley on the Mid-Hants Railway on 18 May 1980. Bottom right: GWR '4575' 2-6-2T No 5541 at the Norchard Steam Centre of the Dean Forest RPS in July 1980.
Article Snippets
OLD FACES, New Faces may be taken as the theme for this issue of Trains Illustrated. We are delighted to welcome the Association of Railway Preservation Societies who from this issue will feature in ARPS Briefing, to emphasise the close contact between the ARPS and Trains Illustrated. Talking of new faces, the Mid-Hants Railway is one of our more recent restored railways and is notable for at least two reasons — its ambition to run through to Alton to connect with British Rail and a reputation for thinking big in the establishment of a locomotive fleet. If the Mid-Hants is poised for expansion, then in the near future the Dean Forest Railway hopes to be in a position to extend its horizon from being a steam centre to becoming an operator of regular public passenger services. Old faces: two very contrasting ones. Ten years ago, British Rail relented in its previous unbending attitude towards main line steam operation and in October 1971 King George V blazed an important trail. What better than to have a profile of the doyen of main line steam! USA 0-6-OT No 72 has been a familiar face on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway and Robin Higgins, 'as always, raises some interesting points of design.
