26 NEW GENERATION LINES NEWS FOCUS SPECIAL : MAKING FRESH TRACKS TO TINTERN ABBEY - The Southall-based GWR Preservation Group is backing local moves to form a new Wye Valley Railway Company and reopen the GWR route from Chepstow to Tintern Abbey as a tourist line. The idea appears to ooze potential at every corner, with the prospect of a GW-design pannier tank returning to the route that the Class once made its own. But could the Forest of Dean support a second heritage railway, asks Robin Jones in an exlusive feature.

31 HERITAGE RAILWAY COMPETITION - Your chance to win some superb Hornby model railway kits - just in time for Christmas!

32 BURIED BRITISH LOCOMOTIVE TREASURE BY THE TON! - Tales of a 'strategic reserve' of steam locomotives hidden by the Army in tunnels to be used in the event of national disasters are among preservation's biggest urban myths. However, there ARE scores of British-built steam locomotives ready to be dug out of the ground and restored - but you will have to dig a little deeper than Salisbury Plain! Tony Batchelor describes his activities as a railway archaeologist - in New Zealand!

38 WEMBLEY'S SECRET 'SOCCER SPECIAL' - It is not only the Antipodes that can boast buried railway relics, for a locomotive has for 77 years lain beneath the hallowed turf of Wembley Stadium, explains Robin Jones.

56 THE TOP TEN PRODUCTS OF 2000 - Editor Robin Jones outline what, in his opinion, are the best ten books, videos and other items to have wended their way to our Stamford office over the past 12 months - and tells you how to get money off each of them for Christmas!

70 WHERE STEAM REALLY WENT TO TOWN! - In a feature written in conjunction with The Nostalgia Collection, Robin Jones looks at a rare example of 'preservation in retreat' - and the town section of the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway that the revivalists were forced to give up in 1963.

82 GWR: A MAGNIFICENT MICROCOSM - A short hop down the road from Didcot Railway Centre and still largely unnotied by the vast majority of enthusiasts after more than 50 years in Pendon Museum, a monument in miniature to the GWR, writes Richard Loydell. 84 WAY UP NORTH WHERE THE AIR IS COLD - Children adore them and, headboards aside, linesiders welcome them, but what does the 'man in the middle' of the Santa special - the one with the red coat and white beard - think? Dave Hewitt recounts his seasonal experiences entertaining youngsters on the Tanfield Railway.