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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
comment - The Editor considers the BR programme of building and modernising marshalling yards in the 1950s. Was it a failing of nationalised industry or a victim of politics?
call attention - Chris Leigh opens this month's pot-pourri of interesting snippets with a report from Buggleskelly and a look at Welford Park.
discovering THE REAL great central - John Clarke grew up in the Great Central heartland around Doncaster and Sheffield, an area which has-received less attention than the London Extension.
christmas greetings! - Our 'Great Shot' this month is a seasonally snowy offering from the camera of Roy C. Hobbs, on the Southern Region.
cheltenham - A railway town - The second part of our feature looking at this Spa town with its six stations. This month we've a table of observations on a summer day in 1960. To be concluded next month.
twilight OF NORTH-EASTERN STEAM - David Percival marks the 30th anniversary of the end of steam on what had been the North Eastern Region of BR.
platform - The readers letters page brings a pair of Sentinel shunters, plus comments on Cheltenham and Carnforth to name but two.
A TIME AT st. philip's marsh - Ted Grant begins the story of a his footplate career on the GWR, starting with his induction as a cleaner at Weston-super-Mare.
buckhaven - 1959 - A spectacular Aerofilms view of the National Coal Board colliery sidings in East Fife.
'atlantic' stars - 3 - R.H.N. Hardy continues his personal reminiscence of life with the Great Northern Railway's Ivatt 'Atlantic' 4-4-2s. recounting a couple of prodigious haulage feats.
reviews - The second of our enlarged Chnstmas present ideas features. with reviews of recent books and prints.
darkroom discoveries - The second in a short series of features from the collection of W.A. Reed shows some views of freight traffic on BR.
A GREAT scottish SHED-BASH - 2 - Patrick Evans concludes the story of his epic spotting trip to Scotland in 1958 during which he added to his 11,000 'cops.'
carnbkoe OR carnbrae? - Hugh Ramsey recalls a trip to Glasgow in search of a mystery dump for withdrawn locomotives, when even the name of the place was uncertain.
all things considered - Andrew Dow marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the railway grouping with a look at the achievements of the "Big Four.'
Cover: 'K3' 2-6-0 No. 61904 passes Woodburn Road with a Sheffield to Lincoln train, in the heartland of the Great Central. See page 8.
call attention - Chris Leigh opens this month's pot-pourri of interesting snippets with a report from Buggleskelly and a look at Welford Park.
discovering THE REAL great central - John Clarke grew up in the Great Central heartland around Doncaster and Sheffield, an area which has-received less attention than the London Extension.
christmas greetings! - Our 'Great Shot' this month is a seasonally snowy offering from the camera of Roy C. Hobbs, on the Southern Region.
cheltenham - A railway town - The second part of our feature looking at this Spa town with its six stations. This month we've a table of observations on a summer day in 1960. To be concluded next month.
twilight OF NORTH-EASTERN STEAM - David Percival marks the 30th anniversary of the end of steam on what had been the North Eastern Region of BR.
platform - The readers letters page brings a pair of Sentinel shunters, plus comments on Cheltenham and Carnforth to name but two.
A TIME AT st. philip's marsh - Ted Grant begins the story of a his footplate career on the GWR, starting with his induction as a cleaner at Weston-super-Mare.
buckhaven - 1959 - A spectacular Aerofilms view of the National Coal Board colliery sidings in East Fife.
'atlantic' stars - 3 - R.H.N. Hardy continues his personal reminiscence of life with the Great Northern Railway's Ivatt 'Atlantic' 4-4-2s. recounting a couple of prodigious haulage feats.
reviews - The second of our enlarged Chnstmas present ideas features. with reviews of recent books and prints.
darkroom discoveries - The second in a short series of features from the collection of W.A. Reed shows some views of freight traffic on BR.
A GREAT scottish SHED-BASH - 2 - Patrick Evans concludes the story of his epic spotting trip to Scotland in 1958 during which he added to his 11,000 'cops.'
carnbkoe OR carnbrae? - Hugh Ramsey recalls a trip to Glasgow in search of a mystery dump for withdrawn locomotives, when even the name of the place was uncertain.
all things considered - Andrew Dow marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the railway grouping with a look at the achievements of the "Big Four.'
Cover: 'K3' 2-6-0 No. 61904 passes Woodburn Road with a Sheffield to Lincoln train, in the heartland of the Great Central. See page 8.
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