Steam Classic Magazine, June 1995 Issue

TRAFFIC NOTICES - Summer main-line programme (drought permitting!) - steelworks steam at Scunthorpe - four in steam at Gwili gala - steam cavalcade inaugurates K&ESR anniversary event - five days of Met line steam - Churnet Valley deal signed and sealed - "Manors" to Minehead
OBSERVATIONS: WAY DOWN SOUTH - Remember when the Southern was a steam desert? How things have changed, as these scenes from both the main line and preserved railways amply demonstrate
ON TRACK - Getting a locomotive back into steam is just the beginning: then begins the constant work to maintain it in that condition, efforts which frequently go unnoticed and unappreciated
RESTORATION UPDATE - Hampshire's 'narrow gauge dream factory': a special report by Mark Smithers - the "King" goes private - Churchward tank making progress - Caprotti '5' for August '96 - Calboume returns
FROM THE FOOTPLATE: GOING SPARE - It should have been a week to catch up on some lost shuteye, but Harry Friend soon found that waiting for the 'Mallaig Fish' entailed dealing with a derailment, hot boxes, duff coal - and an even duffer Pacific - and some of the most curmudgeonly characters you wouldn't want to meet at 3.00am on a cold, foggy Tyneside morning
STEAM PORTFOLIO: STKATFORD'S LEADS - Martin Smith begins a two-part evaluation of (he work of James Holden and his son, SlajAc.n Dewar Holden, the 'Stratford leads' whose locomotives put in performances to match their billing during the golden vears of the Great Eastern
THE CLASSIC IMAGE - For the second month running, it's three-for-the-price-of-one, as we take you back to Tytdey in 1989 and an unsurpassed twelve-
ON CLOSER INSPECTION: FULL TANK - All the angles on the Riddles BR Standard Class 4MT 2-6-4T, the last of the 'Brighton Belles', plus the data and the detail that we know delights all the modellers among you!
INFORMATION LINES - Some intriguing questions about Swindon's "Castles" dominate this month's reader enquiries
A DAY RETURNED: BONNIE CLYDE! - Eric Sawford concludes his 'Scottish Safari' with a lightning tour of the four major Glasgow depots - Polmadie, Corkerhill, Eastfield and St Rollox - before catching the "Royal Scot" back south - with an all-too-familiar Camden Pacific at its head
TRAIN FAYRE - The review spotlight is turned on the latest from B&R Video, an evocative reminder of the L&YR lines over the Pennines, and on a delightful piece of GW nostalgia
WRITE LINES - Swindon fights back, among other views forcefully expressed in this month's letters page
THE LOCOMOTIVE IN QUESTION: THE MILITARY TYPE - With the VE-Day celebrations upon us, a timely reflection on one of the classes which helped win the war, and on one locomotive in particular which played its part despite never leaving Hampshire. They also serve...
WHERE THERE'S STEAM - Your area-by-area, line-by-line guide to steam activity throughout England, Scotland and Wales during the coming weeks, with details of gala events ranging from wartime weekends to the friends of the ubiquitous Thomas

FRONT COVER - No less than fifteen of the 155 Riddles BR Standard Class 4MT tanks have been preserved and, of those, five have put in good service on both preserved and main-lines. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway's No80135 is reckoned to have clocked up the highest mileage of any standard-gauge preserved locomotive while tackling the thirty-six mile return run between Grosmont and Pickering, including countless assaults on the 1 in 49 climb from Grosmont to Goathland. Seemingly set to take the formidable three-mile climb in its sure-footed stride, No80135 makes a storming exit from Grosmont Tunnel with a morning service for Pickering during July 1981. The Standard tank is now enjoying a well-earned rest, having been withdrawn from NYMR service for its compulsory ten-year overhaul and leaving only classmates Nos80079 and 80080 currently in traffic. However, they could be joined this year by the Keighley & Worth Valley's No80002 {Reg Printheel). cylinder line-up of Great Western express passenger power