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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
Cover Stories:
footplate experiences working expresses - Following his first footplate exprencies as an apprentice. Grant Reid soon enjoyed many more runs on a variety of classes during his BR career.
the train's next stop IS reading general...The line from Paddington was full of interest for enthusiasts in the 1950s. Chris Gammell explores the 36 miles route with its many branches, and recalls steam's November 1963 swansong when new diesels were suddenly withdrawn.
summer 'V2' visitors To scarborough - Regular visits by Green Arrow to Scarborough last year mav have seemed a little incongruous. But as Neville Stead recalls, 'V2s' were regular summer Saturday fare at the east coast resort, so it was more a case ot 'what goes round, comes round'.
peppercorn 4-6-2S' last years - With a working life of barely 20 years, the last of Peppercorn's 63 'Pacifies' were all withdrawn in 1966. Peter Cooper recalls their final years in service.
Regulars & Features:
from our man in the van - It's the Second World War and 17-year-old Ron Wellings has recently become a shunter working for the GWR at Shrewsbury. Continuing his recollections, he describes his work and move to Hereford, with promotion to a goods guard.
the fastline files - With another selection of superb black and white images from the infrastructure archive of Fastline Photographic Ltd, Andrew Dow explores level crossings on the Eastern Region.
great shot! - Keith Pirt visits Worting junction, on the South Western Main Line, to see a rebuilt Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' on a lovely late summer day.
A less glamorous aspect - Learning the art of shed work under the watchful eye of his driver, George Holyhead concludes his recollections of the hard work and danger at Polmadie shed, Glasgow.
comment - The charm - or otherwise - of cross country trains in the steam era.
call attention - More oddities, suggestion and comments from the steam scene oddities.
platform - Debate and discussion on a wide variety of topics across the entire steam scene.
of people and places...Continuing his recollections of the inter-war period at Edinburgh St. Margaret's shed, Charles Meacher soon found himself working numerous industrial sidings and 'rescuing' whisky, before his transfer to Carlisle Canal shed.
garston dock - Aerofilms took our view from the air of Carston Dock, Liverpool, on September 5 1934.
To wales and the west in '53 - Having travelled from York to Bangor, David Bertram and his friend continue their big shed bash, taking in Oswestry and night activity at Crewe before heading off for South Wales.
ON THE COVER: LNER 'A1' class 'Pacific' No. 60121 Silurian makes a dramatic start from King's Cross with the 4.35pm to Newcastle on August 18 1962.
footplate experiences working expresses - Following his first footplate exprencies as an apprentice. Grant Reid soon enjoyed many more runs on a variety of classes during his BR career.
the train's next stop IS reading general...The line from Paddington was full of interest for enthusiasts in the 1950s. Chris Gammell explores the 36 miles route with its many branches, and recalls steam's November 1963 swansong when new diesels were suddenly withdrawn.
summer 'V2' visitors To scarborough - Regular visits by Green Arrow to Scarborough last year mav have seemed a little incongruous. But as Neville Stead recalls, 'V2s' were regular summer Saturday fare at the east coast resort, so it was more a case ot 'what goes round, comes round'.
peppercorn 4-6-2S' last years - With a working life of barely 20 years, the last of Peppercorn's 63 'Pacifies' were all withdrawn in 1966. Peter Cooper recalls their final years in service.
Regulars & Features:
from our man in the van - It's the Second World War and 17-year-old Ron Wellings has recently become a shunter working for the GWR at Shrewsbury. Continuing his recollections, he describes his work and move to Hereford, with promotion to a goods guard.
the fastline files - With another selection of superb black and white images from the infrastructure archive of Fastline Photographic Ltd, Andrew Dow explores level crossings on the Eastern Region.
great shot! - Keith Pirt visits Worting junction, on the South Western Main Line, to see a rebuilt Bulleid 'Merchant Navy' on a lovely late summer day.
A less glamorous aspect - Learning the art of shed work under the watchful eye of his driver, George Holyhead concludes his recollections of the hard work and danger at Polmadie shed, Glasgow.
comment - The charm - or otherwise - of cross country trains in the steam era.
call attention - More oddities, suggestion and comments from the steam scene oddities.
platform - Debate and discussion on a wide variety of topics across the entire steam scene.
of people and places...Continuing his recollections of the inter-war period at Edinburgh St. Margaret's shed, Charles Meacher soon found himself working numerous industrial sidings and 'rescuing' whisky, before his transfer to Carlisle Canal shed.
garston dock - Aerofilms took our view from the air of Carston Dock, Liverpool, on September 5 1934.
To wales and the west in '53 - Having travelled from York to Bangor, David Bertram and his friend continue their big shed bash, taking in Oswestry and night activity at Crewe before heading off for South Wales.
ON THE COVER: LNER 'A1' class 'Pacific' No. 60121 Silurian makes a dramatic start from King's Cross with the 4.35pm to Newcastle on August 18 1962.
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