Trains of Thought

High Days at Grantham - Mike Thompson takes a look at the traffic which visited and passed through this busy location on Saturday, 23 July 1960, and provides full details of the trains.

Maunsell's 'W class 2-6-4Ts - Andrew Wilson

Memories of the Last Years of the Somerset & Dorset - Thirty years after the closure of the Somerset & Dorset Railway, Colin Stone recalls his introduction to the line in the late 1950s, and his captivation with it until the last trains ran in 1966.

The Aberfeldy Branch - David Anderson provides us with a brief history of this picturesque Highland Railway branch line.

Lineside Cameraman - Stephen Crook

Special Traffic - Racing at Newbury - Michael Harris, in his series of articles where he reviews various flows of special traffic, looks at the prestigious Specials for race-goers which ran from Paddington to Newbury.

Tail Lamp

Cover: This month In Steam Days, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the closure of the Somerset & Dorset line, we take a look back at those final years as recalled by Colin Stone who remembers them vividly as a youth living in Poole. In this scene a Bournemouth-bound train over the Somerset & Dorset line clears Corfe Mullen Junction on 4 July 1959, and is headed by BR Class '4' 2-6-0 No 76028 of Eastleigh shed.