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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
The Britannias' last stand - THE press party aboard the first diesel-hauled London Liverpool Street-Norwich express back in 1958 were expecting something really special from D200. But she'd already been upstaged by one of the "Britannia" Pacifies she was replacing. Geoffrey Freeman-Alien was there.
Toby the Tram Engine and Other Stories - THE Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, which was worked first by the curious-looking steam trams and later by modified diesel shunters, was the inspiration behind one of the Rev C. W. Awdry's "Little Red Engine" books. His son, Chris, tells of the line whose centenary is celebrated this month.
"Rail Enthusiast" readers hit it big - MARTIN Hey, 14, of Garforth, near Leeds, rides in HST cab and is an "Inter-City Executive" for a day, while James Lythgoe, 19, learns how to drive D4 Great Gable at the Midland Railway Centre. Both entered - and won - competitions through reading this magazine.
Pearls Beyond Price - the West Highland and Kyle lines - PETER Kelly takes a memorable trip along two of the most beautiful lines in Britain, which could both be lost if ever the Serpell Report is put into practice. We've added to the atmosphere with three pages of superb colour.
Your Letters - A STRIKING colour transparency of a preserved GG1 electric comes in from an American reader; a railwayman pleads for MORE politics in our magazine; someone suggests a Travellers' Fare star rating guide, and another tells of an interesting night newspaper train working.
Electrification moves ahead - FOR his technical article this month, Basil Cooper looks at the important strides forward in railway electrification over recent years.
Readers' Round-Up - THE column that just keeps growing, and which is written by hundreds of individual readers, continues its reputation as one of the most informative system-wide loco movements guides going.
North Wales for a tenner - CHRIS Milner reports on the picturesque and interesting rail journey around the North Wales Circle, including electric, diesel loco, DMU and steam power for only Ã
Toby the Tram Engine and Other Stories - THE Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, which was worked first by the curious-looking steam trams and later by modified diesel shunters, was the inspiration behind one of the Rev C. W. Awdry's "Little Red Engine" books. His son, Chris, tells of the line whose centenary is celebrated this month.
"Rail Enthusiast" readers hit it big - MARTIN Hey, 14, of Garforth, near Leeds, rides in HST cab and is an "Inter-City Executive" for a day, while James Lythgoe, 19, learns how to drive D4 Great Gable at the Midland Railway Centre. Both entered - and won - competitions through reading this magazine.
Pearls Beyond Price - the West Highland and Kyle lines - PETER Kelly takes a memorable trip along two of the most beautiful lines in Britain, which could both be lost if ever the Serpell Report is put into practice. We've added to the atmosphere with three pages of superb colour.
Your Letters - A STRIKING colour transparency of a preserved GG1 electric comes in from an American reader; a railwayman pleads for MORE politics in our magazine; someone suggests a Travellers' Fare star rating guide, and another tells of an interesting night newspaper train working.
Electrification moves ahead - FOR his technical article this month, Basil Cooper looks at the important strides forward in railway electrification over recent years.
Readers' Round-Up - THE column that just keeps growing, and which is written by hundreds of individual readers, continues its reputation as one of the most informative system-wide loco movements guides going.
North Wales for a tenner - CHRIS Milner reports on the picturesque and interesting rail journey around the North Wales Circle, including electric, diesel loco, DMU and steam power for only Ã
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