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rains of Thought The Tanat Valley Light Railway - Ted Davies explores the rise and fall of the Tanat Valley Light Railway,' which was built to exploit the mineral riches of the Berwyn Mountains near Llangynog in the north-east of Wales. The Great Central Railway Class '8K' 2-8-0 Locomotives - A. J. Ludlam describes the evolution of one of the most successful heavy freight locomotives to be designed and built by a British railway company a€ the GCR '8K' 2-8-0, which became LNER '04' class. STEAM DAYS in Colour 54: The Scottish Industrial Scene - Part One: Ayrshire - Industrial steam could be guaranteed to produce some spectacular images as relatively small tank engines were worked to their limit. With this in mind, this month we visit some of the industrial lines in Ayrshire. Bristol (Midland/LMS Lines) - Stanley Jenkins explores the influence of the Midland Railway and LMS at Bristol, the city that is better known for creating the Great Western Railway. Out and About on 'The Chatham' - Neil Sprinks describes the character of the lines of the former London, Chatham & Dover Railway, and recollects memories from Southern Railway and BR days. Tail Lamp a€" Readers' Letters Cover: In this issue of STEAM DAYS Magazine we feature the Tanat Valley Railway, one of the Cambrian system's picturesque branch lines. After seemingly days of rain, a break in the weather, on Monday, 12 August 1957, finds Blodwell Junction awash. Here the Tanat Valley line once bisected the Nantmawr branch of the erstwhile-Potteries, Shrewsbury & North Wales Railway. A typical country railway scene is captured on film as one of the Oswestry-based Ivatt 2-6-Os, No 46513, is pictured at the station with the Tanat Valley pick-up goods working.
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