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The Macduff Branch - Bill Rear provides a brief history of this Great North of Scotland Railway branch line and details the line's workings until its complete closure in the early 1960s.
Steam Days at Peterborough - The Late Stanford Jacobs
Simply the best...St Pancras to Derby in the 1950s - The second in a series of Regional Photo Features comprising just a small selection of the many excellent pictures held in the Rail Archive Stephenson Collection.
The Malverns - A regular visitor to this delightful hillside area of Worcestershire in the days of steam, Rex Kennedy describes and recalls the three stations serving The Malverns, their services, and the area's attraction to visitors.
The Adams '0395' class 0-6-os of the London & South Western Railway - W. A. T. Aves
Holiday Expresses - 6: From the West Midlands to the South Coast - Michael Harris
Tail Lamp and Reviews

Cover: The 'Holiday Expresses' article in this issue of Steam Days takes as its subject the trains to the South Coast from the West Midlands. In this scene, captured on 18 August 1962, the train is 1V80 a€ the Saturday 8.50am Margate-Birmingham (Snow Hill) a€" formed of a set of Southern Region coaches and seen passing Gomshall & Shere station on the Redhill-Guildford line behind ex-Great Western '4300' class 2-6-0 No 6391.