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rains of Thought Southern Continental Boat Trains in the 20th Century Neil Sprinks recalls integrated rail and sea services of the 1950s and 1960s as he considers the evolution of surface travel between Britain and mainland Europe. Steam Days at Rhyl Blessed with a main line from May 1848, railways played a pivotal role in the development of this North Wales holiday resort, as Stanley Jenkins relates. Steam Days in Colour 125: English Industrial Steam in the 1950s Delving into the photographic vaults of R.C. Riley allows us to visit dockyard, colliery, cement and ironstone locations at a time when many industrial railways were on the brink of switching from steam to diesel power. Remembering 1965 a€ Fifty Years On Frederick Rogers recalls the year when Sir Winston Churchill died, the Western Region discarded its last steam locomotives, and British Railways was rebranded as British Rail. Tail Lamp a€" Readersa€ Letters
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