Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
COMMENT - A journalist in The Times has penned some vitriole about railway enthusiasts. The Editor takes up the issue.
CALL ATTENTION - Rampaging elephants are among this month's varied items in the signalman's register.
TWO STATIONS AT STAMFORD - The fine old Lincolnshire market town was a railway cross-roads which once had two stations. Chris has dug out some track plans and photographs.
MY FAVOURITE THINGS - Former shedmaster and popular Steam World author, R.H.N. Hardy provides a glimpse of his favourite items gathered during a lifetime on the railway.
PLATFORM - This month's readers' letters include further comments on Exeter, Andrew Dow's column and reader Phil Lynch's thoughts on Dr. Beeching's closures.
YANKS - We mark the VE Day celebrations with some recollections of the US Army '8160' locomotives.
PLEASE EXPLAIN...More readers questions receive answers from the experts.
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - Columnist, Andrew Dow considers the mechanical signalbox and ponders how its decline has diminished personal contact on the railway.
9B - STOCKPORT EDGELEY - Here was a depot whose allocation actually increased in quality and quantity as steam declilned elsewhere. John Kitchen recalls with affection the depot of his youth.
ATTENTION TO DETAIL - In concluding the first section of this series, R.H.N. Hardy remembers two Southern enginemen of distinction.
PETERBOROUGH -1934 - This month's centre spread features Peterborough East and the junction with the East Coast Main Line from the Aerofilms library.
JOHN WHITELEY'S DARKROOM DISCOVERIES - John has been busy again, printing previous^ unseen negatives. This time it's a selection cf stirring images of freight trains in action -particularly in West Yorkshire, close to his home.
MYSTERY AT BEATTOCK - Last month Alan Earnshaw left us in suspense What happened in the last seconds as the Glasgow train ground to halt, and will we eve-know the whole story?
CHEAP LABOUR - Railway engineer and Steam World author Charles Taylor highlights the trials and tribulations of being a Crewe apprentice.
REVIEWS - Among this month's selection of books and videos there's a special treat - the first of Telerail's programmes using archive footage from the Steam Wor/dfilm search of 1993.
THE STANDARD '4MT' 4-6-0s - BETTER LATE THAN NEVER - Seldom highly regarded during their working career, the Standard '4MT 4-6-Os were the culmination of a long-felt want, as Philip Atkins explains.
BARRY COACHES ON THE CULM VALLEY - The Hemyock branch has often been described as using gas-lit coaches from the Barry Railway. R.C. Riley explains why the suggestion that Barry stock was gas-lit is unjust.
WALK THK LINE - What's the connection between an Essex couple, the Braintree-Bishops Stortford line and a side of bacon? Chris Leigh is on the trail of the answer.
MAINLINE POINTS - More coupons and more great offers from the railway magazines that save you money!
AT THE PLATFORM END - Another stylish view from the Hulton Deutsch library.
CALL ATTENTION - Rampaging elephants are among this month's varied items in the signalman's register.
TWO STATIONS AT STAMFORD - The fine old Lincolnshire market town was a railway cross-roads which once had two stations. Chris has dug out some track plans and photographs.
MY FAVOURITE THINGS - Former shedmaster and popular Steam World author, R.H.N. Hardy provides a glimpse of his favourite items gathered during a lifetime on the railway.
PLATFORM - This month's readers' letters include further comments on Exeter, Andrew Dow's column and reader Phil Lynch's thoughts on Dr. Beeching's closures.
YANKS - We mark the VE Day celebrations with some recollections of the US Army '8160' locomotives.
PLEASE EXPLAIN...More readers questions receive answers from the experts.
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED - Columnist, Andrew Dow considers the mechanical signalbox and ponders how its decline has diminished personal contact on the railway.
9B - STOCKPORT EDGELEY - Here was a depot whose allocation actually increased in quality and quantity as steam declilned elsewhere. John Kitchen recalls with affection the depot of his youth.
ATTENTION TO DETAIL - In concluding the first section of this series, R.H.N. Hardy remembers two Southern enginemen of distinction.
PETERBOROUGH -1934 - This month's centre spread features Peterborough East and the junction with the East Coast Main Line from the Aerofilms library.
JOHN WHITELEY'S DARKROOM DISCOVERIES - John has been busy again, printing previous^ unseen negatives. This time it's a selection cf stirring images of freight trains in action -particularly in West Yorkshire, close to his home.
MYSTERY AT BEATTOCK - Last month Alan Earnshaw left us in suspense What happened in the last seconds as the Glasgow train ground to halt, and will we eve-know the whole story?
CHEAP LABOUR - Railway engineer and Steam World author Charles Taylor highlights the trials and tribulations of being a Crewe apprentice.
REVIEWS - Among this month's selection of books and videos there's a special treat - the first of Telerail's programmes using archive footage from the Steam Wor/dfilm search of 1993.
THE STANDARD '4MT' 4-6-0s - BETTER LATE THAN NEVER - Seldom highly regarded during their working career, the Standard '4MT 4-6-Os were the culmination of a long-felt want, as Philip Atkins explains.
BARRY COACHES ON THE CULM VALLEY - The Hemyock branch has often been described as using gas-lit coaches from the Barry Railway. R.C. Riley explains why the suggestion that Barry stock was gas-lit is unjust.
WALK THK LINE - What's the connection between an Essex couple, the Braintree-Bishops Stortford line and a side of bacon? Chris Leigh is on the trail of the answer.
MAINLINE POINTS - More coupons and more great offers from the railway magazines that save you money!
AT THE PLATFORM END - Another stylish view from the Hulton Deutsch library.
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