Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
NEWS - The country's best-informed and most comprehensive steam news service, featuring private steam sites and all the main line developments. This month: coverage includes the first 'M7' in steam on SR metals in 28 years, the NYMR shock ballot result which unseated Trust Chairman Brian Homer and the sad passing of ARPS stalwart Captain Peter Manisty
GALLERY - The world's leading showcase for the very best in steam photography, this month focussing on Butterley-based 2-6-4T No. 80080 on the main line, spectacular 'clag on the NYMR, 60532 on the 'Long Drag and main line steam on the Southern.
DIARY OF A FAILED VOLUNTEER - Do private railways deserve the increased volunteer support for which they frequently appeal ? One would-be volunteer found volunteering for duty a rather difficult and unrewarding pastime.....
TWENTY FIVE YEARS WITH 'BLACKMORE VALE' - A quarter of a century ago, the fledgling Bulleid Pacific Preservation Society set out to 'unrebuild' a 'Merchant Navy' into air-smoothed condition. In the event, they bought unrebuitt 'light' 4-6-2 No. 34023 Blackmore Vale. Roger Price tells the story - including the abortive attempt to found a preservation centre on the Longmoor Military Railway
MAILBAG - Assistant Editor David Brown sifts through the month's post to present a cross-section of readers letters - including a plea for a reconstructed Gresley 'P2' 2-8-2.
REVIEWS - A critical appraisal of books and video tapes recently unleashed on
the railway market. Are they good, bad or indifferent? Find out here.....
THE GLORIOUS YEARS - Lancaster's Noel Machell dips into his colour archive to recall BR steam in his native area. Part II next month features his high-quality black & white collection
THE STEAM RAILWAY 'WINDCUTTER' APPEAL - We have just ONE MONTH to secure a future in preservation for a worthwhile train of BR standard 16-ton mineral wagons, on the Great Central Railway Pause only to reach for your chequebook before reading these pages!
THE KODAK STEAM RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARD - Don't waste any more time before entering this prestigious competition, open to all photographers using any film format - spectacular prizes to be won!
THE MICKEY MOUSE RAILWAY - We sent Associate Editor David Wilcock to Paris to investigate the Euro Disney Railway for which Hugh Phillips Engineering built three steam locomotives and 15 carnages. Photography was more difficult, he claims, than any other steam railway he'd visited - even behind the Iron Curtain!
DEATH BY UNNATURAL CAUSES - Philip Atkins continues his survey of engines which met their ends prematurely - including an 0-6-0T which dived into Kirkcaldy harbour
FORTY YEARS BETWEEN - An incredible photographic 'double' by steam cameraman Dick Blenkinsop.
WORLDWIDE REPORT & WORLDWIDE EXTRA - David Thornhill reports on a steam-hauled boat train from the Hook of Holland in May whilst Michael Rhodes brings encouraging news from eastern Germany of a 12-months reprieve for a classic steam line.
JOIN 'STEAM RAILWAY'AT THE SVR - Don't miss this chance to join BCA and Steam Railway on the Severn Valley Railway on Saturday August 29 for a day out with No. 34027 Taw Valley
WHERE TO GO FOR STEAM - Trains, museums and society meetings - the definitive enthusiasts' monthly guide.
CLASSIFIED MARKETPLACE - The most comprehensive selection of classified advertisements you'll find in any railway journal... everything from shovels to stations!
MIXED TRAFFIC - A new regular feature in which the editor chips in his "two 'pennorth' and provides a platform for the interesting bits n' pieces that don't really fit anywhere else!
FRONT COVER: On Thursday June 11, the Purbeck countryside, in Dorset, echoed to the bark of a Drummond Class M7 0-4-4T for the first time in 28 years. With East Somerset Railway Driver George Shields at the regulator. No. 30053, restoration to working order having been completed at Chappel & Wakes Colne, makes confident progress at Dickers Crossing, north of Herston on the Swanage branch, with an eight-coach test train. The engine also acted as station pilot at Salisbury during Network SouthEast's Andover-Exeter & Eastleigh-Salisbury steam workings. See also News section.
GALLERY - The world's leading showcase for the very best in steam photography, this month focussing on Butterley-based 2-6-4T No. 80080 on the main line, spectacular 'clag on the NYMR, 60532 on the 'Long Drag and main line steam on the Southern.
DIARY OF A FAILED VOLUNTEER - Do private railways deserve the increased volunteer support for which they frequently appeal ? One would-be volunteer found volunteering for duty a rather difficult and unrewarding pastime.....
TWENTY FIVE YEARS WITH 'BLACKMORE VALE' - A quarter of a century ago, the fledgling Bulleid Pacific Preservation Society set out to 'unrebuild' a 'Merchant Navy' into air-smoothed condition. In the event, they bought unrebuitt 'light' 4-6-2 No. 34023 Blackmore Vale. Roger Price tells the story - including the abortive attempt to found a preservation centre on the Longmoor Military Railway
MAILBAG - Assistant Editor David Brown sifts through the month's post to present a cross-section of readers letters - including a plea for a reconstructed Gresley 'P2' 2-8-2.
REVIEWS - A critical appraisal of books and video tapes recently unleashed on
the railway market. Are they good, bad or indifferent? Find out here.....
THE GLORIOUS YEARS - Lancaster's Noel Machell dips into his colour archive to recall BR steam in his native area. Part II next month features his high-quality black & white collection
THE STEAM RAILWAY 'WINDCUTTER' APPEAL - We have just ONE MONTH to secure a future in preservation for a worthwhile train of BR standard 16-ton mineral wagons, on the Great Central Railway Pause only to reach for your chequebook before reading these pages!
THE KODAK STEAM RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR AWARD - Don't waste any more time before entering this prestigious competition, open to all photographers using any film format - spectacular prizes to be won!
THE MICKEY MOUSE RAILWAY - We sent Associate Editor David Wilcock to Paris to investigate the Euro Disney Railway for which Hugh Phillips Engineering built three steam locomotives and 15 carnages. Photography was more difficult, he claims, than any other steam railway he'd visited - even behind the Iron Curtain!
DEATH BY UNNATURAL CAUSES - Philip Atkins continues his survey of engines which met their ends prematurely - including an 0-6-0T which dived into Kirkcaldy harbour
FORTY YEARS BETWEEN - An incredible photographic 'double' by steam cameraman Dick Blenkinsop.
WORLDWIDE REPORT & WORLDWIDE EXTRA - David Thornhill reports on a steam-hauled boat train from the Hook of Holland in May whilst Michael Rhodes brings encouraging news from eastern Germany of a 12-months reprieve for a classic steam line.
JOIN 'STEAM RAILWAY'AT THE SVR - Don't miss this chance to join BCA and Steam Railway on the Severn Valley Railway on Saturday August 29 for a day out with No. 34027 Taw Valley
WHERE TO GO FOR STEAM - Trains, museums and society meetings - the definitive enthusiasts' monthly guide.
CLASSIFIED MARKETPLACE - The most comprehensive selection of classified advertisements you'll find in any railway journal... everything from shovels to stations!
MIXED TRAFFIC - A new regular feature in which the editor chips in his "two 'pennorth' and provides a platform for the interesting bits n' pieces that don't really fit anywhere else!
FRONT COVER: On Thursday June 11, the Purbeck countryside, in Dorset, echoed to the bark of a Drummond Class M7 0-4-4T for the first time in 28 years. With East Somerset Railway Driver George Shields at the regulator. No. 30053, restoration to working order having been completed at Chappel & Wakes Colne, makes confident progress at Dickers Crossing, north of Herston on the Swanage branch, with an eight-coach test train. The engine also acted as station pilot at Salisbury during Network SouthEast's Andover-Exeter & Eastleigh-Salisbury steam workings. See also News section.
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