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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
ON CHILTERN LINES - 40 YEARS AGO - Neil Sprinks recalls the Chiltern railways when steam ruled and even LT trains were locomotive-hauled
WIN A HORNBY 'SCOTSMAN' - Enter our simple competition to win this superb Hornby model.
MUDDLE AND GET NOWHERE - The locals' affectionate nickname for the straggling M&GN system was not altogether appropriate. Chris Gammell tells of his travels - and how he was arrested for vagrancy.
THROUGH THE DORIC ARCH - Life beyond the other Doric Arch, at Inverness shed, is seen through the eyes of Jim Gordon. This month he recounts the beginnings of his railway career
CENTRE COLOUR - Four pages of BIG colour, featuring Hemerdon Bank, Hatherleigh station, and a Keith Pirt centrespread of ECML diversions
CLEANING AT SALTLEY - By popular request, Terry Essery returns with a took back to the dawn of his footplate career, as a cteaner at the LMR's Saltley depot.
THE STANIER 'JUBILEE' 4-6-0s - Geoff Rixon provides a brief overview of some of the detail differences between the ever-popular LMS 'Jubilee' 4-6-0s
REVIEWS - THE NORTH DEVON & CORNWALL JUNCTION LIGHT RAILWAY - Colonel Stephens' NDCJLR was not opened until 1925 and operated for little more than 40 years. Chris Leigh summarises the story of this remote and attractive line
WALK THE LINE - Today, you can walk part of the NDCJLR and the railway between Torrington, Bideford and Barnstaple, on the Tarka Trail. There's a restored station and two signalboxes to see
MIRFIELD-MARSDEN - 2 - D.R. Smith concludes his recollections of the main line through Huddersfield and the climb to Standedge tunnel.
PLATFORM - Elite Steam and Pullman cars are just two of the subjects featured in this month's post-bag.
FRONT COVER: Immaculate Gloucester -Castte' No. 5094 - Tretower Castle heads the up 'Cheltenham Spa Express'through Twyford on May 3 1958. The Swindon-liveried green locomotive with chocolate and cream stock and final style of headboard represents the zenith of Western Region steam express services in the late 1950s. Just over four years later the 'Castte' was consigned to Cashmores for scrap.
WIN A HORNBY 'SCOTSMAN' - Enter our simple competition to win this superb Hornby model.
MUDDLE AND GET NOWHERE - The locals' affectionate nickname for the straggling M&GN system was not altogether appropriate. Chris Gammell tells of his travels - and how he was arrested for vagrancy.
THROUGH THE DORIC ARCH - Life beyond the other Doric Arch, at Inverness shed, is seen through the eyes of Jim Gordon. This month he recounts the beginnings of his railway career
CENTRE COLOUR - Four pages of BIG colour, featuring Hemerdon Bank, Hatherleigh station, and a Keith Pirt centrespread of ECML diversions
CLEANING AT SALTLEY - By popular request, Terry Essery returns with a took back to the dawn of his footplate career, as a cteaner at the LMR's Saltley depot.
THE STANIER 'JUBILEE' 4-6-0s - Geoff Rixon provides a brief overview of some of the detail differences between the ever-popular LMS 'Jubilee' 4-6-0s
REVIEWS - THE NORTH DEVON & CORNWALL JUNCTION LIGHT RAILWAY - Colonel Stephens' NDCJLR was not opened until 1925 and operated for little more than 40 years. Chris Leigh summarises the story of this remote and attractive line
WALK THE LINE - Today, you can walk part of the NDCJLR and the railway between Torrington, Bideford and Barnstaple, on the Tarka Trail. There's a restored station and two signalboxes to see
MIRFIELD-MARSDEN - 2 - D.R. Smith concludes his recollections of the main line through Huddersfield and the climb to Standedge tunnel.
PLATFORM - Elite Steam and Pullman cars are just two of the subjects featured in this month's post-bag.
FRONT COVER: Immaculate Gloucester -Castte' No. 5094 - Tretower Castle heads the up 'Cheltenham Spa Express'through Twyford on May 3 1958. The Swindon-liveried green locomotive with chocolate and cream stock and final style of headboard represents the zenith of Western Region steam express services in the late 1950s. Just over four years later the 'Castte' was consigned to Cashmores for scrap.
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