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Northern Exposures in the Border City - Carlisle-based photographer Bob Leslie has enthralled Steam World readers in the past with his superb colour prints, expertly processed from 35-year-old negatives using the very latest printing techniques. This month he provides a further selection of quality coclour of BR steam from around his home city. From Edinburgh to Exeter - In search of Southern 'Pacifics' - For a young boy living in Edinburgh, opportunities to see Southern Region 4-6-2s were limited. So when Brian Dickson's parents decided to holiday in the West Country, it was an unmissable chance to observe WR and SR power - particularly Bullied's great 'Pacifics'. Flt Lt Fuller and the Liverpool Experience - Using Aidan Fuller's definitive Shed Directory, Tom Heavyside 'copped' 104 locomotives - including his 3,000th - on his first trip to Liverpool in 1958. The Best of Leicester! - The final years of Leicester's former Great Central station - by then thoroughly 'Midlandised' - are recorded in classic colour by R.C. Riley. On Holiday the 'proper' way - by GWR To brixham - In the steam era, the journey itself was as much a part of the holiday experience as the actual stay. Keith Jaggers recalls a journey from Raddington in the sweltering Indian summer of 1959. Darkroom Discoveries - Nowhere better summed up the atmosphere of the final years of steam than the gritty sheds of the North East. Bob Stewart delves into his negatives to produce some fine shots-of North and South Blyth sheds in 1967. Comment - The loss of the communal atmosphere of train travel in the steam years - particularly on excursions and specials - is regretted by the Editor. Call Attention - Our monthly round-up of the unusual and offbeat from the editor's postbag includes two contrasting views of a remarkable Midland Railway locomotive survivor - and a long- abandoned concrete signal post in a most improbable setting. Go east, young man! - In part seven of his series on the locomotives of the Great Eastern Railway he worked with, popular Steam World writer and former top railwayman R.H.N. Hardy turns his attention to goods engines, particularly the delightfully-nicknamed 'Knocko' 0-6-0 tender engines. what, where, when? - Part two of our new monthly competition in which you can not only win a book but also contribute to the sum of railway knowledge! Platform - The Steam World Platform is lengthened yet again this month as subjects covered include the 'Claughton'/'Patriot' conundrum, Swindon Works and the Great Western on Merseyside. Great Shot! - It's to single-engine operation for the February photograph, by Lancashire lensman Ron Herbert. A train by any other name...The concluding part of the late Stanford Jacobs' series on locomotive naming policies of the Big Four take a look at the Great Western, which carried naming to extraordinary lengths. Bournemouth: A resort Remembered - Alan Trickett concludes his absorbing and comprehensive account of train services to Bournemouth between 1943 and 1967 - with a look at the last years of British Railways steam in this genteel Dorset resort. All Things Considered - Happily recovered from his recent illness, highly respected columnist Andrew Dow offers his views on another pressing issue from the world of steam. Next Issue - Our penultimate page provides our monthly preview of what's timetabled to appear in the March edition of Steam World. Cover: A truly delightful scene at Padstow in June 1960 as LSWR Drummond 'T9' 4-4-0 No. 30338 arrives at the terminus with an unadvertised school train.
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WELCOME to the February 2000 Steam World, in which we criss-cross the country covering all points of the compass - from Edinburgh to Exeter and Carlisle to Cambridge. Starting from the furthest point north, Brian Dickson travels from the Scottish capital to the South West of England in search of SR and WR motive power while, just over the Border, Bob Leslie presents another selection of his striking colour prints from around Carlisle. There's a detour to the North East for a glimpse behind the scenes of North and South Blyth sheds in Darkroom Discoveries, then it's back across the Pennines for Tom Heavyside's highly-productive day trip to Liverpool. After an excursion to the East Midlands for R.C. Riley's photographic special on Leicester Central, we continue our journey south to Brixham and Bournemouth, then it's back east for R.H.N. Hardy's tales of Great Eastern life around London and East Anglia. With the final part of the late Stanford Jacobs' series on locomotive naming, plus our regulars like Call Attention, Platform and our new monthly competition, you can sit back on a cold February evening and travel through time and distance without ever leaving the comfort of your armchair!
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