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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
THE UP 'TEES-TYNE PULLMAN' - Top Shed fireman Frank Mayes recounts some footplate tales from a crack East Coast Pullman express
TEBAY - FOR THE BANKERS TO SHAP - A railway village grew and prospered around the station where the bankers were added to assist trains to Shap summit. Ron Herbert recalls this place which was so busy in the 1950s yet has now disappeared from the railway map
CONTAINERS ON DISPLAY - Containerisation, 1930s style, seen through some photographs from the collection of Michael C. Shaw.
REVIEWS - More new books come in for some scrutiny. Which are the 'plums' and which the 'duffs?'
DISASTER BY THE SEA - A steam-hauled express approaches a seaside terminus at speed and its path is blocked by an out-going electric unit. Disaster is inevitable. Professor Alan Eamshaw explains how it happened.
ATTENTION TO DETAIL PART 1 - R.H.N. Hardy explains how attention to detail at all levels of railway operation paid dividends in improved performance. This month, L.P. Parker and the 'Britannias' on the Norwich interval service.
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - In his regular column, Andrew Dow considers a subject for railway historians which hasn't really been tackled before.
JOHN WHITELEY'S DARKROOM DISCOVERIES - Photographer John S. Whiteley reveals how well some old negatives of Leeds respond to printing on modern multigrade paper.
RETURN TO PRESTON PART 2 - In the second part of his look back at the railways of Preston, Bill Ashcroft recalls locomotives, train services, and the routes out of the city to east and west
PERSONAL FAVOURITES; '700' CLASS 0-6-0 - Chris Leigh grew up with Southern engines, none with more special appeal than the Urie-rebuilt 'Black Motor' 0-6-0s of the '700' class.
PLATFORM - Readers' letters include fond recollections of that trip to Aberdeen with the Warwickshires and the answer to last month's unknown photo location.
AT THE PLATFORM END - ...a driver, a fireman, a 'King' and the 'Royal Duchy' on its first day.
Cover In the days before DEMUs took over, BR Standard 2-6-0 No. 76014 heads a Reading General-Southampton train away from Reading West towards Southcote Junction in May 1959.
TEBAY - FOR THE BANKERS TO SHAP - A railway village grew and prospered around the station where the bankers were added to assist trains to Shap summit. Ron Herbert recalls this place which was so busy in the 1950s yet has now disappeared from the railway map
CONTAINERS ON DISPLAY - Containerisation, 1930s style, seen through some photographs from the collection of Michael C. Shaw.
REVIEWS - More new books come in for some scrutiny. Which are the 'plums' and which the 'duffs?'
DISASTER BY THE SEA - A steam-hauled express approaches a seaside terminus at speed and its path is blocked by an out-going electric unit. Disaster is inevitable. Professor Alan Eamshaw explains how it happened.
ATTENTION TO DETAIL PART 1 - R.H.N. Hardy explains how attention to detail at all levels of railway operation paid dividends in improved performance. This month, L.P. Parker and the 'Britannias' on the Norwich interval service.
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - In his regular column, Andrew Dow considers a subject for railway historians which hasn't really been tackled before.
JOHN WHITELEY'S DARKROOM DISCOVERIES - Photographer John S. Whiteley reveals how well some old negatives of Leeds respond to printing on modern multigrade paper.
RETURN TO PRESTON PART 2 - In the second part of his look back at the railways of Preston, Bill Ashcroft recalls locomotives, train services, and the routes out of the city to east and west
PERSONAL FAVOURITES; '700' CLASS 0-6-0 - Chris Leigh grew up with Southern engines, none with more special appeal than the Urie-rebuilt 'Black Motor' 0-6-0s of the '700' class.
PLATFORM - Readers' letters include fond recollections of that trip to Aberdeen with the Warwickshires and the answer to last month's unknown photo location.
AT THE PLATFORM END - ...a driver, a fireman, a 'King' and the 'Royal Duchy' on its first day.
Cover In the days before DEMUs took over, BR Standard 2-6-0 No. 76014 heads a Reading General-Southampton train away from Reading West towards Southcote Junction in May 1959.
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